Growth form (basic octocorallia)

ID: 576

Class: Morphological

Description:

Growth forms of octocorals coarsely categorized by Fabricius & Gómez-Gras. This trait is a sub-classification of the Type of growth trait into broad groups depending on basic morphological features such as the presence of stem/stalk, the presence of stolons, lobes…etc.

Standards:

• Category (cat) default

Methodologies:

• Derived from photographs of live colonies
• Derived from photographs of specimens
• Derived from textual description
• Examination of collected specimens
• Extracted from data table
• Extracted from tabular key
• Identification key
• Image analysis
• inferred
• observation_field
• Species-specific value inherited from family level
• Species-specific value inherited from genus level
• Textual description in identification guide
• Trait value coded using a compilation of data from previous works
• Trait value derived from DORIS online identification guide, based on expert opinions
• Trait value derived from Fabricius and Alderslade (2001)
• Trait value derived from Picton, B.E. & Morrow, C.C. (2016) online identification guide

Editor: Katharina Fabricius (contact)

Observations

Klyxum brochi

• 221758

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (lobate/digitate) (cat)

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Klyxum confertum

• 221759

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (lobate/digitate) (cat)

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Klyxum echinatum

• 221760

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (lobate/digitate) (cat)

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Klyxum equisetiform

• 221761

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (lobate/digitate) (cat)

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Klyxum flaccidum

• 259564

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (lobate/digitate) (cat)

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• 234109

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (cat)

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• 221762

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (lobate/digitate) (cat)

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Klyxum legitimum

• 221763

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (lobate/digitate) (cat)

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Klyxum molle

• 221755

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (lobate/digitate) (cat)

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Klyxum okinawanum

• 221764

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (lobate/digitate) (cat)

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Klyxum rotundum

• 221765

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (lobate/digitate) (cat)

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Klyxum simplex

• 221766

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (lobate/digitate) (cat)

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Klyxum tuberculosa

• 221767

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (lobate/digitate) (cat)

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Klyxum utinomii

• 234276

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (lobate/digitate) (cat)

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• 221768

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (lobate/digitate) (cat)

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• 295042

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (lobate/digitate) (cat)

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Klyxum viscidum

• 221769

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (lobate/digitate) (cat)

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Klyxum whitei

• 221770

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (lobate/digitate) (cat)

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Knopia octocontacanalis

• 245499

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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Kophobelemnon affine

• 239423

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  erect unbranched (simple) (cat)

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• 251806

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  erect unbranched (simple) (cat)

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Kophobelemnon biflorum

• 251807

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  erect unbranched (simple) (cat)

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• 239424

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  erect unbranched (simple) (cat)

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Kophobelemnon heterospinosum

• 239425

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  erect unbranched (simple) (cat)

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• 251808

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  erect unbranched (simple) (cat)

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