Coral Identification help!

[Consumify]

Hello,

I bought a rock from my LFS which had this stick coral coming off of it. Would anyone be able to help with an ID?

Thanks!!

 

[Kasrift]

Hello,

I bought a rock from my LFS which had this stick coral coming off of it. Would anyone be able to help with an ID?

Thanks!!

Super cool, those are pretty uncommon. I think it is a corkscrew gorgonian.

 

[thamnasteroid]

some sort of Gorgonian

Super cool, those are pretty uncommon. I think it is a corkscrew gorgonian.

corkscrew corals are black corals, not Gorgonians

 

[VintageReefer]

Whip/Wire coral similar to cirrapathes spiralis

 

[thamnasteroid]

Whip/Wire coral similar to cirrapathes spiralis

notice the tentacle count; eight tentacles. Black corals usually have no more than six.

 

[VintageReefer]

notice the tentacle count; eight tentacles. Black corals usually have no more than six.

You can see tentacles in the source pic?

 

[thamnasteroid]

You can see tentacles in the source pic?

it's a little hard to make out. The polyp morphology is also a bit different in black corals. Black corals' polyps don't have stalks, while this coral's polyps do.

 

[VintageReefer]

it's a little hard to make out. The polyp morphology is also a bit different in black corals. Black corals' polyps don't have stalks, while this coral's polyps do.

Ok. I do agree on the presence of the stalk as an identifying factor.

@Kasrift you are so wrong it’s like not even funny. How could you miss the stalks? Both @thamnasteroid and I discussed and came to the same conclusion. You’re wrongskies :face-with-monocle:

 

[bluemon]

Probably just regular photosynthetic purple gorgonian that is growing a bit funky due to the current it lived in