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

Rumphella torta

• 229414

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  arborescent (cat)

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• 277904

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  arborescent (cat)

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Sansibia claereboudti

• 253414

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  membranous (sheet-like) (cat)

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Sansibia flava

• 253402

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  membranous (sheet-like) (cat)

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• 245840

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (cat)

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Sarcodictyon catenatum

• 265286

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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• 220445

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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• 213048

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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• 213013

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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Sarcodictyon durum

• 265287

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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Sarcodictyon gotoi

• 265288

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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Sarcodictyon herdmani

• 265289

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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Sarcodictyon incrustans

• 265290

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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Sarcodictyon pacificum

• 265291

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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Sarcodictyon pallidum

• 265292

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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Sarcodictyon tropicale

• 265293

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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Sarcophyton aalbersbergi

• 221927

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (plate-like) (cat)

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Sarcophyton acutum

• 221925

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (plate-like) (cat)

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Sarcophyton aldersladei

• 221928

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (plate-like) (cat)

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Sarcophyton alexanderi

• 221929

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (plate-like) (cat)

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Sarcophyton auritum

• 249013

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (plate-like) (cat)

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• 221920

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (plate-like) (cat)

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Sarcophyton birkelandi

• 221930

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (plate-like) (cat)

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Sarcophyton boletiforme

• 221931

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (plate-like) (cat)

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Sarcophyton buitendijki

• 221922

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (plate-like) (cat)

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