Coral ID?

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I visited the Scranton aquarium for the first time today and fell in love with these corals. Can someone please ID them?
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Purple looks like starlight chalice and blue - possible stunner chalice
 

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WWC Electric Daisy / Stylo
UC Hollywood Stuner / Chalice
TG Party Crasher / Cyphastrea

I think the two on top are hammers and the one on the bottom is a torch.
 
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WWC Electric Daisy / Stylo
UC Hollywood Stuner / Chalice
TG Party Crasher / Cyphastrea

I think the two on top are hammers and the one on the bottom is a torch.
Yup I think you are right on all of them.
 

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Never heard a chalice called oxypora? I didn't think there was any "pora" in LPS?
Chalices are corals of genera formerly from the family Pectiniidae (now split up into Lobophylliidae and Merulinidae). This family used to comprise of the genera Echinophyllia, Oxypora, Echinomorpha, Paraechinophyllia, Echinopora, Mycedium, Pectinia, and Physophyllia (Pectinia and Physophyllia are generally not regarded as chalices).

There are many LPS with the suffix "-pora:" Oxypora, Echinopora, Goniopora, Alveopora, Astreopora, etc.
 

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