Coral ID, please? Lobo, Trachy, Willsoni?

[Adamantium]

Hi all,

I picked up this beauty for a pretty reasonable price yesterday. It was sold to me as a Trachy, but I’m not 100% sure.

Any thoughts? Thanks!

 

[Adamantium]

Some more photos of it while eating

 

[vetteguy53081]

Green Wilsoni . . . . or AKA Dented brain coral

 

[Adamantium]

Green Wilsoni . . . . AKA Dented brain coral

That’s what I was leaning towards. Thanks for confirming!

 

[Michaelnguyen714]

I’m actually thinking that might be a green wellsophyllia

 

[Michaelnguyen714]

Looks similar in shape to my yellow/blue wellso...

 

[poidog]

Green Wilsoni . . . . AKA Dented brain coral

It is 100% not a wilsoni. It's either Wellsophyllia radiata or Trachyphyllia geoffroyi, and I'm leaning towards the latter.

 

[vetteguy53081]

It is 100% not a wilsoni. It's either Wellsophyllia radiata or Trachyphyllia geoffroyi, and I'm leaning towards the latter.

I mentioned dented brain ,.. . . which is a Wellsophyllia radiata

 

[Adamantium]

I thought the classification of wellsophyllia was removed? Am I misunderstanding Than here?

 

[Adamantium]

The main difference that has me leaning towards wilsoni is that it has segmented pieces, not one long rim as I see in most examples of trachys/wellsos.

 

[poidog]

The main difference that has me leaning towards wilsoni is that it has segmented pieces, not one long rim as I see in most examples of trachys/wellsos.

It’s not a wilsoni. Wilsoni does not have that flesh texture and a different skeleton pattern.

 

[Luckyduck]

+1 on the Wellso

 

[Adamantium]

So, I don’t think you’re necessarily wrong, but every trachy I see has large, contiguous polyps. This has lots of segmented polyps, which looks more like the wilsonis I see.

I’d be happy to know it’s not a Wilsoni, as they seem to be incredibly hard to keep long term from what I read.

I’ll try to get a pic of it a bit more closed up today so you can really see what I mean about the segmentation.

 

[Adamantium]

Regarding wellso, from what I’ve heard (and in the Tidal Gardens video) that is no longer a classification. So, it would be a type of trachy.

 

[Adamantium]

I guess it could be a trachyphyllia geoffroyi. It just seems more randomly segmented than the ones I see pictures of.

 

[Michaelnguyen714]

Perhaps a top-down picture or another angle can give us definitive answer. Either way, nice coral!