Type of skeleton

ID: 561

Class: Biomechanical

Description:

The type of skeleton present in a given octocoral species. Categories were selected based on McFadden et al. 2022

Standards:

• Category (cat) default

Methodologies:

• Derived from textual description
• Dissecting microscope
• Examination of collected specimens
• Extracted from data table
• Microscopy
• Species-specific value inherited from family level
• Species-specific value inherited from genus level
• Trait value derived from DORIS online identification guide, based on expert opinions
• Trait value derived from Fabricius and Alderslade (2001)
• X-radiography (densitometer)

Editor: Cathy McFadden (contact)

Observations

Lobophytum lighti

• 268754

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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Lobophytum longispiculatum

• 268755

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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Lobophytum meandriforme

• 268756

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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Lobophytum michaelae

• 268757

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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Lobophytum microlobulatum

• 268690

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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Lobophytum microspiculatum

• 268758

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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Lobophytum mirabile

• 268759

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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Lobophytum mortoni

• 268760

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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Lobophytum oligoverrucum

• 268761

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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Lobophytum patulum

• 268762

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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Lobophytum pauciflorum

• 268689

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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Lobophytum planum

• 268688

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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Lobophytum proprium

• 268763

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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Lobophytum prostratum

• 268764

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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Lobophytum pusillum

• 268726

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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Lobophytum pygmapedium

• 268765

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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Lobophytum ransoni

• 268766

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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Lobophytum rigidum

• 268767

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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Lobophytum rotundum

• 268768

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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Lobophytum salvati

• 268769

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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Lobophytum sarcophytoides

• 222132

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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• 268701

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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Lobophytum schoedei

• 268713

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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Lobophytum solidum

• 268770

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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Lobophytum spicodigitum

• 268771

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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