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

Alcyonium megasclerum

• 232259

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  membranous (sheet-like) (cat)

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Alcyonium pacificum

• 206364

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  erect unbranched (with domed capitulum) (cat)

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Alcyonium palmatum

• 212757

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  arborescent lobate (cat)

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• 238027

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  sub-massive (lobate/digitate) (cat)

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• 259458

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  arborescent lobate (cat)

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Alcyonium patagonicum

• 231155

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  digitiform (cat)

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Alcyonium paucilobulatum

• 231265

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  digitiform (cat)

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Alcyonium profundum

• 232269

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  membranous (sheet-like) (cat)

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Alcyonium senegalense

• 231176

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  membranous (sheet-like) (cat)

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Alcyonium siderium

• 259179

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  sub-massive (lobate/digitate) (cat)

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Alcyonium sollasi

• 231186

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  sub-massive (lobate/digitate) (cat)

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Alcyonium southgeorgiensis

• 231290

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  sub-massive (lobate/digitate) (cat)

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Alcyonium spitzbergense

• 231196

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  digitiform (cat)

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Alcyonium variabile

• 234509

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  erect unbranched (with domed capitulum) (cat)

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• 236210

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  erect unbranched (with domed capitulum) (cat)

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Alcyonium varum

• 232406

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  membranous (sheet-like) (cat)

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Alcyonium yepayek

• 232418

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  sub-massive (lobate/digitate) (cat)

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• 232419

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  digitiform (cat)

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Aldersladum jengi

• 248136

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  encrusting (digitate/lobate/folded) (cat)

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Aldersladum sodwanum

• 248122

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  encrusting (digitate/lobate/folded) (cat)

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Alertigorgia hoeksemai

• 232364

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (cat)

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• 227282

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  branched planar (cat)

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Alertigorgia orientalis

• 227281

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

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

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Alloptilella splendida

• 250895

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  feather-like (cat)

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Altumia delicata

• 253574

  Growth form (detailed octocorallia)

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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