Coral ID please?

[OneMerissa]

No idea what this is?? It’s beautiful…

 

[Timfish]

I'm going to guess alveopora.

 

[fishguy242]

Nice one, galaxia ??,not sure,pic with closed polyps could help... ;)

 

[thamnasteroid]

Can you post a picture of the coral closed up so we can see the corallites and coenosteum please?

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

Looks like galaxea, but need to see the skeleton to tell for sure

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

If I didn't know better, I'd say it's a colony of teeny tiny duncans...

 

[fishguy242]

If I didn't know better, I'd say it's a colony of teeny tiny duncans...

wrong skeleton below coral...

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

wrong skeleton below coral...

Did you watch the video? And we can't really see the skeleton, that's the problem. It seems like you can see the centers of the polyps... They don't look like galaxea, they look like tiny duncans, lol.

There is an "encrusting" variety of duncans but I don't really think it's that... Just can't find anything with long tentacled polyps that seems to fit.

It's a mystery for sure!

 

[fishguy242]

Did you watch the video? And we can't really see the skeleton, that's the problem. It seems like you can see the centers of the polyps... They don't look like galaxea, they look like tiny duncans, lol.

There is an "encrusting" variety of duncans but I don't really think it's that... Just can't find anything with long tentacled polyps that seems to fit.

It's a mystery for sure!

no, could not see video, agree is an interesting piece, 3rd pic where flesh meets skeleton ?

 

[dedragon]

its a goniopora or related coral like alveopora but based on the longer tentacles i am leaning goni, this is what they look like when not fully extended

 

[OneMerissa]

Can you post a picture of the coral closed up so we can see the corallites and coenosteum please?