Coral ID help

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Thought it was a stylophora but it's definitely encrusting the plug.
And I've read stylophora doesn't do that...maybe.
Fix my ignorance please.

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Thought it was a stylophora but it's definitely encrusting the plug.
And I've read stylophora doesn't do that...maybe.
Fix my ignorance please.

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Stylophoras definitely do encrust plugs. Looks like a stylo to me.
 
Pocillopora; Stylophora have larger branches with less "messy" polyps and hoods on their corallites like this:
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