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

Swiftia pusilla

• 245927

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (cat)

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Swiftia sahlingi

• 245218

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

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

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Swiftia torreyi

• 242222

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (cat)

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Sympodium arbusculum

• 226895

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  encrusting (digitate/lobate/folded) (cat)

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Sympodium caeruleum

• 226894

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  encrusting (digitate/lobate/folded) (cat)

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Sympodium epiphytum

• 226896

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  encrusting (digitate/lobate/folded) (cat)

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Sympodium gibbaeum

• 226897

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  encrusting (digitate/lobate/folded) (cat)

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Sympodium hexagonotus

• 226898

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  encrusting (digitate/lobate/folded) (cat)

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Sympodium subtilis

• 226899

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  encrusting (digitate/lobate/folded) (cat)

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Sympodium tamatavense

• 226900

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  encrusting (digitate/lobate/folded) (cat)

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Sympodium vegrandis

• 226901

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  encrusting (digitate/lobate/folded) (cat)

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Sympodium yonaguniensis

• 226902

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  encrusting (digitate/lobate/folded) (cat)

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Taiaroa tauhou

• 245662

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  solitary/pseudosolitary (cat)

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• 281004

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  solitary/pseudosolitary (cat)

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Tauroprimnoa austasensis

• 250452

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  bottlebrush (cat)

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• 245479

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  bottlebrush (cat)

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Telesto flavula

• 237987

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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• 281917

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  erect branched tangled (stoloniferous) (cat)

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Telesto fruticulosa

• 281941

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  erect branched tangled (stoloniferous) (cat)

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Telesto nelleae

• 281954

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  erect branched tangled (stoloniferous) (cat)

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Telesto operculata

• 281894

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  erect branched tangled (stoloniferous) (cat)

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Telesto sanguinea

• 281928

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  erect branched tangled (stoloniferous) (cat)

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Telestula batoni

• 253489

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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• 265294

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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Telestula corrugata

• 265295

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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