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

Diodogorgia capensis

• 238254

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (cat)

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Diodogorgia nodulifera

• 238253

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (cat)

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• 249955

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (cat)

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• 234677

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  sparsely branched (cat)

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• 208095

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (cat)

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Diodogorgia sibogae

• 238255

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (cat)

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Discophyton rudyi

• 275964

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  membranous (sheet-like) (cat)

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• 231163

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  encrusting (flat) (cat)

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• 206375

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  membranous (sheet-like) (cat)

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Distichogorgia sconsa

• 248667

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  flagelliform/filiform (cat)

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Distichoptilum gracile

• 256964

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  flagelliform/filiform (cat)

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• 252027

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  flagelliform/filiform (cat)

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• 241063

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  flagelliform/filiform (cat)

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• 239483

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  erect unbranched (pen-like) (cat)

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Drifa glomerata

• 238100

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  bushy/tree-like (TYPE soft) (cat)

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• 270864

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  bushy/tree-like (TYPE soft) (cat)

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Duva bicolor

• 270884

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  bushy/tree-like (TYPE soft) (cat)

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Duva florida

• 270862

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  bushy/tree-like (TYPE soft) (cat)

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• 238116

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  bushy/tree-like (TYPE soft) (cat)

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Duva multiflora

• 270885

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  bushy/tree-like (TYPE soft) (cat)

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Echinisis eltanin

• 246409

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (cat)

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Echinisis spicata

• 246401

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  bottlebrush (cat)

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Echinisis vema

• 246419

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

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

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Echinogorgia abietina

• 212001

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (cat)

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Echinogorgia armata

• 212002

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (cat)

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