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- Traits:Encrusting + (Forms or resembles a crust over a substratum or other organisms)
- Traits:Zoea + (Fourth free-swimming larval stage of Decapoda, with thoracic appendages for locomotion (see Stachowitsch, 1992).)
- Traits:FreeLiving + (Free living - little modification)
- Traits:Copepodid + (Free swimming larval stage, typically with five sub-stages, characterized by excretion through maxillary glands, and progressive increase in number of body segments and posterior appendages (see Stachowitsch, 1992).)
- Traits:Cyphonautes + (Free-swimming bryozoan larva, the body is triangular, compressed and enclosed in a bivalve shell (see Ruppert & Barnes, 1994).)
- Traits:GoettesLarva + (Free-swimming four armed (lobed) ciliated larva of Platyhelminthes (see Ruppert & Barnes, 1994).)
- Traits:Tronchophore + (Free-swimming larva characterised by apicla tuft of cilia and a girdle of cilia around the midregion (see Stachowitsch, 1992, Rupert & Barnes, 1996).)
- Traits:Echinopluteus + (Free-swimming larva of Echinoidea, distinguished by six pairs of arms, supported by skeletal rods (see Ruppert & Barnes, 1994; Stachowitsch, 1992).)
- Traits:Nauplius + (Free-swimming larva, with a characteristic triangular shape, rostral horns in some, three pairs of appendages, and sometimes a nauplia eye. The number of nauplius stages varies between groups (see Stachowitsch, 1992).)
- Traits:Ophiopluteus + (Free-swimming larvae of Ophiuroidea, distinguished by four pairs of arms supported by skeletal rods (Stachowitsch, 1992).)
- Traits:Cydippid + (Free-swimming spherical larva, composed of a simple gastrovascular system and short comb-rows; resembles typical adult ctenophore (see Stachowitsch, 1992, Ruppert & Barnes, 1994).)
- Traits:Pilidium + (Free-swimming, helmet-shaped, larva of nemerteans (ribbon worms) with an apical tuft, apical sensory organs, oral lobes and oral ciliated band (see Stachowitsch, 1992, Rupert & Barnes, 1996).)
- Traits:Coronate + (Free-swimming, lecithotrophic larva of Bryozoa)
- Traits:UltraSheltered + (Fully enclosed coasts with a fetch measured in tens or at most a few hundred metres.)
- Traits:ExtremelySheltered + (Fully enclosed coasts with a fetch of no more than about 3 km.)
- Traits:Ovoviviparous + (Fully formed eggs are retained and hatched inside the maternal body and are released as live offspring (Lincoln ''et al.'', 1998). No nutrition is derived from the mother.)
- Traits:Isogamous + (Gametes similar in size, shape and behaviour, not differentiated into male or female (Lincoln ''et al.'', 1998))
- Traits:ModeratelyExposed + (Generally coasts facing away from prevailing winds and without a long fetch but where strong winds can be frequent.)
- Traits:GrazerBrowser + (Generally mobile consumers of sessile prey (e.g. plants, hydroids) cropping exposed tissues usually without killing the whole individual or colony.)
- Traits:SeaLoch + (Glacially formed inlets (fjords, fjards) of western Scotland and Ireland; typically elongate and deepened by glacial action with little freshwater influence. Often with narrows and sills dividing the loch into a series of basins.)
- Traits:MuddyGravel + (Gravel (30-80%) with mud (see Long, 2006))
- Traits:MuddySandyGravel + (Gravel (30-80%) with mud and sand (see Long, 2006))
- Traits:Seagrass + (Habitat associated with seagrass bed communities.)
- Traits:UnderBoulders + (Habitat associated with the underside of boulders.)
- Traits:Biogenic + (Habitat features created by living things)
- Traits:HalfCone + (Half cone (Olenina ''et al.'', 2006))
- Traits:HalfConeFlattenedEllipsoid + (Half cone with flattened ellipsoid (Olenina ''et al.'', 2006))
- Traits:HalfParallelepiped + (Half parallelepiped (Olenina ''et al.'', 2006))
- Traits:HalfSphereDome + (Half sphere (dome))
- Traits:Isomorphic + (Haploid and diploid phases morphologically identical)
- Traits:Arrhenotoky + (Haploid males develop from unfertilized eggs and diploid females from fertilized eggs (adapted from Lincoln 'et al.'', 1998).)
- Traits:SupportingStructuresEnclosures + (Hard framework, internal or external, which supports and protects softer parts of plant, animal or unicellular organism, and to which muscles usually attach in animals, includes skeletons (derived from Lawrence, 2005).)
- Traits:Hard + (Hard substratum e.g. bedrock, concrete, boulders,cobbles and pebbles)
- Traits:Shrub + (Having a very short stem with branches near the ground (Thompson, 1995).)
- Traits:Anisogamous + (Having flagellate gametes of different size, shape or behaviour (from Bold, 1977 and Lincoln ''et al.'', 1998).)
- Traits:Oogamous + (Having large, non-motile eggs and small motile sperm (Lincoln ''et al.'', 1998).)
- Traits:Digitate + (Having parts arranged like fingers on a hand (Holmes, 1979).)
- Traits:Gonochoristic + (Having separate sexes/genders (Barnes ''et al.'', 1993).)
- Traits:Tadpole + (Having the body form of a tadpole i.e. consisting of a round head with a tail.)
- Traits:ArborescentArbuscular + (Having the shape or characteristics of a tree.)
- Traits:HeightAboveSubstratum + (Height above the surface of the substratum of an individual or single modular colony. e.g a blade of seagrass, a seaweed thallus, projecting tube worm, upright sea pen etc.)
- Traits:SequentialHermaphrodite + (Hermaphrodite in which the male and female organs mature (that is produce gametes) at different times in the reproductive cycle (adapted from Lincoln ''et al.'', 1998))
- Traits:HardImmobile + (Immobile hard substratum e.g. solid rock, concrete but including soft rocks, such as chalk.)
- Traits:Wingspan + (In birds (Aves) - "the distance between th … In birds (Aves) - "the distance between the wing tips when the wings are held outstretched" (Wikipedia) or "wingtip to wingtip in flight" (BTO).</br></br>In winged insects (Insecta) - "may refer to the distance between the centre of the thorax to the apex of the wing doubled or to the width between the apices with the wings set with the trailing wing edge perpendicular to the body" (Wikipedia)</br></br>Note: For wingspan you can specify the measurement type (minimum, maximum, average), gender (male, female) and life stage.ge), gender (male, female) and life stage.)
- Traits:Pathway/vector Other + (In cases where pathway/vector is not specified/ cases of novel pathways/vectors.)
- Traits:ParallelepipedRhomboid + (In geometry, a parallelepiped is a three-dimensional figure formed by six parallelograms (the term rhomboid is also sometimes used with this meaning))
- Traits:Reticulate + (In the form of a mesh or net (Prescott, 1969).)
- Traits:Straplike + (In the form of a strap or ribbon.)
- Traits:Whiplike + (In the form of a whip.)
- Traits:Kleptoparasitism + (In which the female of one species steals the food reserves or prey of a female of another species, to feed her own progeny (Lincoln ''et al.'', 1998))