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

Sarcophyton buitendijki

• 253559

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (plate-like) (cat)

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Sarcophyton cherbonnieri

• 253561

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (plate-like) (cat)

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• 221932

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (plate-like) (cat)

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Sarcophyton cinereum

• 221923

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (plate-like) (cat)

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• 236728

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (foliose) (cat)

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• 253560

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (plate-like) (cat)

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Sarcophyton cornispiculatum

• 259647

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (plate-like) (cat)

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• 245543

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (plate-like) (cat)

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• 221933

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (plate-like) (cat)

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Sarcophyton crassocaule

• 253573

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (plate-like) (cat)

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• 221918

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (plate-like) (cat)

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Sarcophyton crassum

• 221924

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (plate-like) (cat)

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• 253562

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (plate-like) (cat)

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Sarcophyton ehrenbergi

• 249031

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (plate-like) (cat)

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• 234299

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (cat)

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• 221916

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (plate-like) (cat)

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• 236733

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (plate-like) (cat)

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Sarcophyton elegans

• 295122

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (plate-like) (cat)

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• 221921

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (plate-like) (cat)

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• 253563

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (plate-like) (cat)

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Sarcophyton expandum

• 221934

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (plate-like) (cat)

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Sarcophyton flexuosum

• 234148

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (plate-like) (cat)

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Sarcophyton furcatum

• 221935

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (plate-like) (cat)

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Sarcophyton glaucum

• 234153

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (plate-like) (cat)

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• 221915

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (plate-like) (cat)

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