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

Virgularia rumphii

• 252817

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  feather-like (cat)

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• 239668

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  feather-like (cat)

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Virgularia schultzei

• 252818

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  feather-like (cat)

  Show
• 239669

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  feather-like (cat)

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Virgularia tuberculata

• 252819

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  feather-like (cat)

  Show
• 239670

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  feather-like (cat)

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• 241068

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  feather-like (cat)

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Williamsium parviflorum

• 209483

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (cat)

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Xenia bauiana

• 226612

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  erect unbranched (with domed capitulum) (cat)

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Xenia blumi

• 226602

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  erect unbranched (with domed capitulum) (cat)

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Xenia crassa

• 226614

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  erect unbranched (with domed capitulum) (cat)

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Xenia delicata

• 226618

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  arborescent (with domed capitula) (cat)

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Xenia flexibilis

• 226626

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  erect unbranched (with domed capitulum) (cat)

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Xenia fusca

• 226627

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  erect unbranched (with domed capitulum) (cat)

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Xenia garciae

• 226603

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  erect unbranched (with domed capitulum) (cat)

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Xenia grasshoffi

• 226604

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  erect unbranched (with domed capitulum) (cat)

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Xenia konohana

• 245446

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  arborescent (with domed capitula) (cat)

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Xenia kuekenthali

• 226601

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  arborescent (with domed capitula) (cat)

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Xenia lepida

• 259806

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  arborescent (with domed capitula) (cat)

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• 226632

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  arborescent (with domed capitula) (cat)

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Xenia membranacea

• 226606

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  arborescent (with domed capitula) (cat)

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Xenia mucosa

• 226635

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  arborescent (with domed capitula) (cat)

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Xenia multispiculata

• 226637

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  erect unbranched (with domed capitulum) (cat)

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Xenia novaebritanniae

• 226607

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  erect unbranched (with domed capitulum) (cat)

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Xenia rubens

• 226641

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  arborescent (with domed capitula) (cat)

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