Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

ID: 628

Class: Morphological

Description:

A sub-classification of the trait Growth form_basic, in which the coarsely classified growth forms of that trait are further subdivided into more detailed categories (K.E. Fabricius and D. Gómez-Gras)

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

Maasella edwardsii

• 259495

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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Macroprimnoa ornata

• 254972

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  flagelliform/filiform (cat)

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Malacacanthus capensis

• 266188

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  erect unbranched (with domed capitulum) (cat)

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• 250666

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  erect unbranched (with domed capitulum) (cat)

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• 244603

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  erect unbranched (with domed capitulum) (cat)

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Malacobelemnon daytoni

• 251979

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  erect unbranched (pen-like) (cat)

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• 248028

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  erect unbranched (pen-like) (cat)

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Malacobelemnon stephensoni

• 251980

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  erect unbranched (pen-like) (cat)

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Melithaea akalyx

• 281360

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (cat)

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Melithaea andamanensis

• 230987

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  bushy/tree-like (TYPE rigid/semirigid) (cat)

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Melithaea arborea

• 235405

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  bushy/tree-like (TYPE rigid/semirigid) (cat)

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Melithaea aurantia

• 254256

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (cat)

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Melithaea baladea

• 281308

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (cat)

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Melithaea biserialis

• 206873

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (cat)

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• 259384

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (cat)

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• 231000

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (cat)

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Melithaea boninensis

• 235413

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (cat)

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Melithaea caledonica

• 281301

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (cat)

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• 212897

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (cat)

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Melithaea cinquemiglia

• 281315

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (cat)

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• 281316

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  bushy/tree-like (TYPE rigid/semirigid) (cat)

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Melithaea coccinea

• 231033

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (cat)

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Melithaea corymbosa

• 235423

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  bushy/tree-like (TYPE rigid/semirigid) (cat)

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• 235424

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (cat)

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Melithaea davidi

• 236019

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  bushy/tree-like (TYPE rigid/semirigid) (cat)

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