Coral ID!

[MermaidShae]

Hello all you cool coral people,

Need some help identifying these 4 corals, Genus name, species if you know it!

I am a college student helping my local fish store to identify about 100 corals and it’s down to these last few.


Thanks a lot!!

 

[Alexopora]

Hello all you cool coral people,

Need some help identifying these 4 corals, Genus name, species if you know it!

I am a college student helping my local fish store to identify about 100 corals and it’s down to these last few.


Thanks a lot!!

3rd one looks like Blastomussa Merletti, aka Pipe Blasto (trade name).

 

[F i s h y]

First 2 appear to be chalice.
3rd not sure the flat shape of the extended polyps is throwing me off. And the last one might be a lepto.

 

[monkeyCmonkeyDo]

Chalice coral
War coral favites
Blasto merletti
And gonisteria
Hths
D

 

[Alexopora]

First 2 appear to be chalice.
3rd not sure the flat shape of the extended polyps is throwing me off. And the last one might be a lepto.

Right? It looks very much like a Blasto yet the overlapping polyps is really throwing me off too.

 

[dedragon]

Chalice coral
War coral favites
Blasto merletti
And gonisteria
Hths
D

i agree with this but maybe better photos as the last 2 almost look like anything. 3 could even be mushrooms and 4 acan echinata but we need a clearer image

 

[MermaidShae]

i agree with this but maybe better photos as the last 2 almost look like anything. 3 could even be mushrooms and 4 acan echinata but we need a clearer image

Here’s a different look at the last two corals. I just did a water change on the first picture so you can see his skeletal structure better.

 

[dedragon]

Blasto (i think merletti) and acan echinata

 

[MermaidShae]

Thanks a lot guys! That was extremely helpful, not to make this a forever thread but I do have a couple more I was hoping to identify I might as well just keep it on the same thread!

 

[vetteguy53081]

#1 is oxypora chalice also called pink and green chalice
#2 - Echinophyllia sp green chalice

#3 - may be alveopora coral

#4 is micromussa

 

[monkeyCmonkeyDo]

Last two are ridge.coral and hydrnophora.
I still stand by my initial i.d. on the 1st set.
D

 

[Andreas' Reef]

First 2 are chalice and favia/favites

 

[MermaidShae]

We are stilllll identiffying this massive bunch, and you guys are seriously a god send.....


here’s another,

This is some Favia species no? We just had it donated to us.
it Is yellow and slightly hairy when the polyps are all out.

 

[Alexopora]

We are stilllll identiffying this massive bunch, and you guys are seriously a god send.....


here’s another,

This is some Favia species no? We just had it donated to us.
it Is yellow and slightly hairy when the polyps are all out.

Looks alot like Leptastrea. Both of them.