chalice or acan?

[stylaster]

Not sure on this one, do you guys think its a chalice of some sort or an acan species?

 

[droblack]

chalice

 

[Breakin Newz]

I'd shoot for a Acanthastrea echinata..

 

[dirtyC]

Looks like a chalice to me

 

[stylaster]

hmmm its tough it has the texture of a chalice with all those little bumps, but i feel like its probably an acan... really not sure, hence the experts on here to take a look!

 

[brannock_16]

The texture and eye growth lends me to think it's a chalice.

 

[droblack]

The large empty spaces with no eyes/mouths or corallite walls suggests chalice. Nice btw.

 

[NeveroddoreveN]

I'd shoot for a Acanthastrea

+1...

 

[uchin]

Rotunda

 

[SaltWaterDave]

If I were a betting man I'd say chalice.

 

[butts182]

acan

 

[stylaster]

hehe since we seem to be mixed and i was looking at the coral more last night and am still not sure. So i put up a poll

 

[reeferman]

acan rotundaflora

 

[ToXIc]

chalice.. you can clearly see the original frag skeleton that it grew over.. if it was an acan you wont see the original fragged outline..

 

[KLR]

Can you take a picture of the side of it? The part that is growing over the plug.

 

[m and m]

Enchanta for sure, You can tell its not a acan due to the pulyps. There is no heads. Now it could be a possable chalice or enchanta but the texture leades me to beliece its a enchanta or rotundaflora or how ever you spell it.

 

[scuba taz]

from the picture it looks to be a chalice

 

[xmetalfan99]

I think it is a chalice based on the way it has grown.

 

[NeveroddoreveN]

looks quite a bit like what i've seen labeled as rotundoflora, especially the coralites.
Rotundaflora acanthastea - Google Search

it's close though. There's that murky place where a piece looks like it could be chalice or acan, acan or plating scoly colony or australomussa, scoly or a lobo, lobo or trachyphyllia and so on.

 

[greybolt03]

chalice.. you can clearly see the original frag skeleton that it grew over.. if it was an acan you wont see the original fragged outline..

+1 chalice