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

Sclerophytum levi

• 236160

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (lobate/digitate) (cat)

  Show

Sclerophytum linnei

• 232490

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (lobate/digitate) (cat)

  Show

Sclerophytum lochmodes

• 236722

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (cat)

  Show
• 234340

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (lobate/digitate) (cat)

  Show

Sclerophytum longulum

• 234864

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (lobate/digitate) (cat)

  Show

Sclerophytum luxuriosum

• 232688

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  arborescent (cat)

  Show

Sclerophytum macrodactyla

• 232726

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (cat)

  Show
• 254416

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (lobate/digitate) (cat)

  Show

Sclerophytum manaarense

• 234614

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  arborescent (cat)

  Show

Sclerophytum maximum

• 236740

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (cat)

  Show
• 259739

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  arborescent (cat)

  Show

Sclerophytum mesophoticum

• 236170

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (plate-like) (cat)

  Show

Sclerophytum minimum

• 259727

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  arborescent (cat)

  Show

Sclerophytum molestum

• 234349

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (cat)

  Show
• 231384

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (lobate/digitate) (cat)

  Show
• 234193

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (cat)

  Show

Sclerophytum multiflorum

• 233792

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (cat)

  Show

Sclerophytum murale

• 234198

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (cat)

  Show
• 231223

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (lobate/digitate) (cat)

  Show

Sclerophytum nanolobatum

• 234203

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (cat)

  Show
• 259114

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (cat)

  Show
• 234077

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (cat)

  Show

Sclerophytum notandum

• 232727

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (cat)

  Show

Sclerophytum numerosum

• 234208

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (cat)

  Show

Sclerophytum ornatum

• 234354

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (cat)

  Show