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

Sarcophyton cinereum

• 268723

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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Sarcophyton cornispiculatum

• 222148

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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• 268786

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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Sarcophyton crassocaule

• 268702

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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• 222133

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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Sarcophyton crassum

• 222139

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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• 268724

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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Sarcophyton ehrenbergi

• 268699

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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• 222131

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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Sarcophyton elegans

• 222136

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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• 268712

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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Sarcophyton expandum

• 222149

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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• 268787

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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Sarcophyton flexuosum

• 268963

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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Sarcophyton furcatum

• 222150

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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• 268788

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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Sarcophyton gemmatum

• 268965

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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Sarcophyton glaucum

• 268698

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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• 222130

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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Sarcophyton griffini

• 268789

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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• 222151

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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Sarcophyton infundibuliforme

• 268964

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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Sarcophyton mililatensis

• 268790

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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• 222152

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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Sarcophyton minusculum

• 234486

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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