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

Protoptilum carpenterii

• 281041

  Type of skeleton

  Solid (scleroproteinaceous) axis with radially-layered non-scleritic calcareous material (cat)

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Protoptilum celebense

• 281042

  Type of skeleton

  Solid (scleroproteinaceous) axis with radially-layered non-scleritic calcareous material (cat)

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Protoptilum cyaneum

• 281043

  Type of skeleton

  Solid (scleroproteinaceous) axis with radially-layered non-scleritic calcareous material (cat)

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Protoptilum denticulatum

• 281044

  Type of skeleton

  Solid (scleroproteinaceous) axis with radially-layered non-scleritic calcareous material (cat)

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Protoptilum nybakkeni

• 281045

  Type of skeleton

  Solid (scleroproteinaceous) axis with radially-layered non-scleritic calcareous material (cat)

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Protoptilum smittii

• 281046

  Type of skeleton

  Solid (scleroproteinaceous) axis with radially-layered non-scleritic calcareous material (cat)

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Protoptilum thomsonii

• 281047

  Type of skeleton

  Solid (scleroproteinaceous) axis with radially-layered non-scleritic calcareous material (cat)

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Psammogorgia anastomosans

• 277775

  Type of skeleton

  Proteinaceous axis with hollow, cross-chambered central core (unmineralized) (cat)

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Psammogorgia arbuscula

• 277768

  Type of skeleton

  Proteinaceous axis with hollow, cross-chambered central core (unmineralized) (cat)

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Psammogorgia flabellum

• 277776

  Type of skeleton

  Proteinaceous axis with hollow, cross-chambered central core (unmineralized) (cat)

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Psammogorgia geniculata

• 277777

  Type of skeleton

  Proteinaceous axis with hollow, cross-chambered central core (unmineralized) (cat)

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Psammogorgia gracilis

• 277778

  Type of skeleton

  Proteinaceous axis with hollow, cross-chambered central core (unmineralized) (cat)

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Psammogorgia hookeri

• 277779

  Type of skeleton

  Proteinaceous axis with hollow, cross-chambered central core (unmineralized) (cat)

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Psammogorgia nodosa

• 277780

  Type of skeleton

  Proteinaceous axis with hollow, cross-chambered central core (unmineralized) (cat)

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Psammogorgia pax

• 277781

  Type of skeleton

  Proteinaceous axis with hollow, cross-chambered central core (unmineralized) (cat)

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Psammogorgia plexauroides

• 277782

  Type of skeleton

  Proteinaceous axis with hollow, cross-chambered central core (unmineralized) (cat)

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Psammogorgia schoedei

• 277784

  Type of skeleton

  Proteinaceous axis with hollow, cross-chambered central core (unmineralized) (cat)

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Psammogorgia teres

• 277769

  Type of skeleton

  Proteinaceous axis with hollow, cross-chambered central core (unmineralized) (cat)

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Pseudoanthomastus agaricus

• 298891

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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Pseudoanthomastus fisheri

• 298892

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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Pseudoanthomastus gloriosus

• 298893

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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Pseudoanthomastus mariejoseae

• 298894

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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Pseudoanthomastus paravenustus

• 298895

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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Pseudoanthomastus pseudovenustus

• 298896

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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Pseudoanthomastus tixierdurivaultae

• 298897

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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