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 glaucum

• 253564

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (plate-like) (cat)

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• 249022

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (plate-like) (cat)

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Sarcophyton griffini

• 221936

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (plate-like) (cat)

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Sarcophyton infundibuliforme

• 234158

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (plate-like) (cat)

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Sarcophyton minusculum

• 258979

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (plate-like) (cat)

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• 221938

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (plate-like) (cat)

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• 232774

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (plate-like) (cat)

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Sarcophyton nanwanensis

• 221939

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (plate-like) (cat)

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• 248963

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (plate-like) (cat)

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• 253565

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (plate-like) (cat)

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• 236729

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (plate-like) (cat)

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Sarcophyton nigrum

• 221940

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (plate-like) (cat)

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Sarcophyton portentosum

• 221941

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (plate-like) (cat)

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Sarcophyton pulchellum

• 221942

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (plate-like) (cat)

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Sarcophyton regulare

• 221943

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (plate-like) (cat)

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• 253566

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (plate-like) (cat)

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Sarcophyton roseum

• 234163

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (plate-like) (cat)

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• 221944

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (plate-like) (cat)

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Sarcophyton serenei

• 221945

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (plate-like) (cat)

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Sarcophyton skeltoni

• 221946

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (plate-like) (cat)

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Sarcophyton soapiae

• 221947

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (plate-like) (cat)

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Sarcophyton solidum

• 221948

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (plate-like) (cat)

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Sarcophyton spinospiculatum

• 221949

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (plate-like) (cat)

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Sarcophyton spongiosum

• 221950

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (plate-like) (cat)

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Sarcophyton stellatum

• 221951

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (plate-like) (cat)

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