ID: 632
Class: Biomechanical
Description:
The rigidity of a coral colony or individual, based on the type of skeleton. Allowed values are: Soft (i.e., species with just a hydrostatic skeleton in which the whole colony is capable of retracting or deflating or greatly changing its volume), Semi-rigid (i.e., species with an axis in which the colony itself is not capable of retraction/deflation) and rigid (i.e., species with a totally hard skeleton that is heavily calcified).
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Editor: Cathy McFadden (contact)