Parameter: Species_code

Dataset: 
St John Octocoral Abundances 2019
Parameter: 
taxon_code
Master parameters information
Short Name:
 taxon_code
Short Description:
 taxon_code
Official Name:
 taxon_code
No Data Value:
Description:
 

taxonomic group or entity code, such as the ten digit number from the NODC Taxonomic List, v. 8.

Dataset-parameters information
Supplied Name: 
Species_code
Supplied Units: 
unitless
Conversion Necessary: 
no
Conversion Utility: 
No Data Value: 
nd
Description: 
Octocoral species code. Field identifications of Pseudoplexaura flagellosa and P. wagenaari are difficult and for analysis purposes the two species should be lumped as a single group. Field identifications of Eunicea mammosa, E. laxispica, and E. succinea are sometimes difficult, thus, for analysis purposes the three species should be lumped as a single group. Colonies identified as Plexaurella dichotoma include colonies with sclerites that match Bayer's Plexaurella fusifera and whose branches best match a thin branch version P. nutans. aa2 is an undescribed Antillogorgia sp. similar in appearance to A. americana.