Acan mouth split?

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Got this one at the store today and they sold to me as acan. I brought it home and put in tank and then i realize there something not right about this acan. It got one large polyp with a shape like a Trachy squeeze in between the acan polyps. This large polyp got 2 mouth on 2 side but no skeleton border in between and as i know acan do not split like this, they grow a new smaller head at the side of existing polyps like blastos. So is this some other species of coral or its an acan being weird?

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Micromussa occasionally have intracalicular budding like this, nothing to worry about
 
It’s not an Acan. It’s a lobophyllia. The technical name is Acan Pachesepta. Acans are now classified as Micromussa Lords. They don’t get along. Hope this helps.
 
It’s not an Acan. It’s a lobophyllia. The technical name is Acan Pachesepta. Acans are now classified as Micromussa Lords. They don’t get along. Hope this helps.
not a pachysepta, pachyseptas are phaceloid
 

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