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

Lampophyton spinatum

• 270781

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  erect unbranched (simple) (cat)

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• 236189

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  erect unbranched (capitate) (cat)

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Lapidogorgia batseba

• 278829

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  arborescent (cat)

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Lapidogorgia cimenia

• 278830

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  arborescent (cat)

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• 281582

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  arborescent (cat)

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Lateothela grandiflora

• 295064

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  horizontal branched (with axial skeletal support) (cat)

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• 209474

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  erect branched (tangled) (cat)

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Latissimia ningalooensis

• 253439

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  membranous (sheet-like) (cat)

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Latissimia opalia

• 253426

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  membranous (sheet-like) (cat)

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Lemnalia acutispiculata

• 225206

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  arborescent (cat)

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Lemnalia africana

• 225207

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  arborescent (cat)

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Lemnalia amabilis

• 225208

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  arborescent (cat)

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Lemnalia bantayensis

• 225209

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  arborescent (cat)

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Lemnalia benayahui

• 225210

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  arborescent (cat)

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Lemnalia bournei

• 225211

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  arborescent (cat)

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Lemnalia brassica

• 225212

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  arborescent (cat)

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Lemnalia carnosa

• 225213

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  arborescent (cat)

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Lemnalia cervicornis

• 225214

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  arborescent (cat)

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Lemnalia crassicaulis

• 225215

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  arborescent (cat)

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Lemnalia digitata

• 225216

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  arborescent (cat)

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Lemnalia elegans

• 225217

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  arborescent (cat)

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Lemnalia exilis

• 225218

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  arborescent (cat)

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Lemnalia faustinoi

• 225219

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  arborescent (cat)

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Lemnalia flava

• 225220

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  arborescent (cat)

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Lemnalia fragilis

• 225221

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  arborescent (cat)

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