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

Menella kanisa

• 232786

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

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

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Menella kouare

• 281575

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

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

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• 281574

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (cat)

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Menella praelonga

• 259144

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (cat)

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Menella pseudoaurantiaca

• 235331

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  sparsely branched (cat)

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Menella woodin

• 281567

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

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

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• 281566

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (cat)

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Mesogligorgia scotiae

• 244832

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  flagelliform/filiform (cat)

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Metafannyella aurora

• 255175

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (cat)

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Metafannyella chathamensis

• 255176

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (cat)

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Metafannyella eos

• 255177

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (cat)

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• 250453

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (cat)

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Metafannyella lepidota

• 255178

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (cat)

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Metafannyella mawsoni

• 255179

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (cat)

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Metafannyella polita

• 250455

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (cat)

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• 255180

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (cat)

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Metafannyella ventilabrum

• 255181

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (cat)

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• 250454

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (cat)

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Metallogorgia macrospina

• 244318

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  bottlebrush (cat)

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• 244319

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  arborescent (with terminal branching) (cat)

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Metallogorgia melanotrichos

• 244304

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  arborescent (with terminal branching) (cat)

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Metallogorgia splendens

• 239144

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  arborescent (with terminal branching) (cat)

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Microprimnoa diabathra

• 255257

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (cat)

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Mirostenella articulata

• 250484

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (cat)

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• 247042

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (cat)

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