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

Xenia mucosa

• 274730

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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Xenia multipinnata

• 274731

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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• 226336

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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• 220272

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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Xenia multispiculata

• 220273

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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• 226337

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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• 274732

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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Xenia novaebritanniae

• 220243

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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• 274630

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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• 226307

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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Xenia novaecaledoniae

• 274733

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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• 226338

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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• 220274

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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Xenia puertogalerae

• 226339

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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• 220275

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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• 274734

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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Xenia quinqueserta

• 220276

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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• 226340

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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• 274735

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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Xenia rubens

• 226341

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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• 274736

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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• 220277

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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Xenia sansibariana

• 274737

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, no sclerites (cat)

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• 220278

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, no sclerites (cat)

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• 226342

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, no sclerites (cat)

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