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

Cladiella pachyclados

• 259576

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (lobate/digitate) (cat)

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Cladiella ramosa

• 233907

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  sub-massive (lobate/digitate) (cat)

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Clavularia anisimovi

• 208151

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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Clavularia arctica

• 208148

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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Clavularia armata

• 208152

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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Clavularia aspera

• 208153

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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Clavularia australiensis

• 208154

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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Clavularia borealis

• 208156

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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Clavularia capensis

• 208157

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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Clavularia carpediem

• 208146

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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Clavularia celebensis

• 208158

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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Clavularia charcoti

• 208159

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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Clavularia chuni

• 208160

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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Clavularia crassa

• 254854

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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• 212986

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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• 208145

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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• 259526

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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Clavularia crosslandi

• 208161

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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Clavularia cylindrica

• 208162

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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Clavularia decipiens

• 208163

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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Clavularia delicatula

• 208164

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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Clavularia densum

• 208165

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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Clavularia desjardiniana

• 208166

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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Clavularia diademata

• 208167

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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Clavularia dispersa

• 208168

  Growth form (basic octocorallia)

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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