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

Telesto flavula

• 237987

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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Telesto fruticulosa

• 281941

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  erect branched (tangled) (cat)

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Telesto nelleae

• 281954

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  erect branched (tangled) (cat)

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Telesto operculata

• 281894

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  erect branched (tangled) (cat)

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Telesto sanguinea

• 281928

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  erect branched (tangled) (cat)

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Telestula batoni

• 265294

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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• 253489

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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Telestula corrugata

• 265295

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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Telestula kuekenthali

• 265296

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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• 253526

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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Telestula mosaica

• 265297

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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Telestula septentrionalis

• 265298

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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• 253505

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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Telestula spiculicola

• 265299

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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Telestula stocki

• 265300

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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• 253512

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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Telestula tubaria

• 253520

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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• 265301

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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Telestula verseveldti

• 265302

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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• 253532

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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Telestula versluysi

• 265303

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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Tenerodus fallax

• 236276

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (lobate/digitate) (cat)

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• 236275

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (cat)

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Tenerodus pollex

• 236283

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (lobate/digitate) (cat)

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Tenerodus verseveldti

• 236291

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  membranous (sheet-like) (cat)

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