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

Melithaea delicata

• 254868

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

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

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• 231007

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

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

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Melithaea divaricata

• 211478

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (cat)

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Melithaea doederleini

• 235436

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (cat)

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Melithaea flabellum

• 231015

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (cat)

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Melithaea frondosa

• 235444

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

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

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Melithaea furcata

• 231023

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (cat)

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Melithaea gracillima

• 250039

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (cat)

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Melithaea habereri

• 235451

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

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

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Melithaea isonoi

• 235458

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (cat)

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Melithaea japonica

• 235465

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (cat)

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Melithaea keramaensis

• 235478

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (cat)

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Melithaea kuea

• 281323

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (cat)

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Melithaea maldivensis

• 230965

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (cat)

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Melithaea modesta

• 235488

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (cat)

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Melithaea mutsu

• 235497

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

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

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Melithaea nodosa

• 235507

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (cat)

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Melithaea ochracea

• 254246

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (multi-plane) (cat)

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• 259142

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (cat)

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• 250021

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (cat)

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• 212907

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (cat)

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• 281294

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (cat)

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Melithaea omanensis

• 230972

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (cat)

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Melithaea ouvea

• 281332

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (cat)

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Melithaea oyeni

• 235516

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (cat)

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