Growth form Veron

ID: 180

Class: Morphological

Description:

The growth form (morphology) of a species as derived from text descriptions in Veron (2000). Species can have more than one growth form, and therefore captures some degree of morphological plasticity.

Standards:

Values: encrusting massive submassive branching_open corymbose branching_closed tables_or_plates digitate hispidose laminar columnar encrusting_long_uprights

Methodologies:

Editor: Andrew Baird (contact)

Observations

Sandalolitha dentata

Sandalolitha robusta

Scapophyllia cylindrica

Schizoculina africana

Schizoculina fissipara

Sclerophyllia maxima

Scolymia cubensis

Seriatopora aculeata

Seriatopora caliendrum

Seriatopora dentritica

Seriatopora guttata

Seriatopora hystrix

Seriatopora stellata

Siderastrea glynni

Siderastrea radians

Siderastrea savignyana

Siderastrea siderea

Siderastrea stellata