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

Ellisella vaughani

• 212251

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

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

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Epiphaxum breve

• 256477

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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Epiphaxum micropora

• 256501

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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Epiphaxum septifer

• 256489

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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Erythropodium caribaeorum

• 265175

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  membranous (sheet-like) (cat)

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• 208019

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  encrusting (flat) (cat)

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• 282025

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  membranous (sheet-like) (cat)

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• 212839

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  encrusting (flat) (cat)

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• 207660

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  encrusting (flat) (cat)

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Erythropodium hicksoni

• 265176

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  membranous (sheet-like) (cat)

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Erythropodium salomonense

• 265177

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  membranous (sheet-like) (cat)

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Erythropodium taoyuanensis

• 247889

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  encrusting (flat) (cat)

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• 265178

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  membranous (sheet-like) (cat)

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Eugorgia alba

• 244069

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (cat)

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Eugorgia ampla

• 244078

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (cat)

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Eugorgia aurantiaca

• 247167

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (cat)

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• 244094

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (cat)

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Eugorgia beebei

• 247137

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (multi-plane) (cat)

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Eugorgia bradleyi

• 258943

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

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

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• 244105

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

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

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Eugorgia daniana

• 247168

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (cat)

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• 246992

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (multi-plane) (cat)

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• 241601

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (cat)

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• 258941

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (cat)

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• 244114

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (multi-plane) (cat)

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