mode

Summary

the characteristic way in which new corallites develop within a corallum or within particular taxa, generally expressed in terms of the relationship of new corallites to parent corallite structures. The following modes of increase are explained in separate entries elsewhere in this glossary: Ab-mural, Axial, Circummural, Circumoral, Coenosteal, Dichotomous, Extracalicular, Interstitial, 'Interstitial', Intracalicular, Intramural, Lateral, Marginal, Mural, Non-parricidal, Parricidal, Peripheral, Polycentric, Terminal. As explained, some of these are subcategories of others. This is an interim and partly simplified attempt to integrate terminology for the three coral groups. See also Cloning, Colony, Increase.

Orthography

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Modifiers

• ab-mural increase mode
• coenosteal increase mode
• extracalicular increase mode
• interstitial increase mode
• interstitial increase ii mode
• intracalicular increase mode
• intramural increase mode
• lateral increase mode
• marginal increase mode
• mural increase mode
• peripheral increase mode
• polycentric increase mode
• terminal increase mode

Description

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This version was contributed by Ken Johnson on 22-Apr-2008 14:35.