Cyphastrea? I have doubts

[NanJ]

Do you think this is a Cyphastrea? That is what we remember when we bought it but either we got mixed up or were told the wrong name.

The polyps are extended like this all day and seem very happy to flow around with the current. The color is dusty red versus the pinkish color in the photo. If the polyps are touched they retract to the base to look like little flowers and the color is a nice red.

 

[mrrtheory]

Do you think this is a Cyphastrea? That is what we remember when we bought it but either we got mixed up or were told the wrong name.

The polyps are extended like this all day and seem very happy to flow around with the current. The color is dusty red versus the pinkish color in the photo. If the polyps are touched they retract to the base to look like little flowers and the color is a nice red.

Looks like a Goni from the picture?

 

[boacvh]

+1. Goni

 

[92Miata]

definitely not any of the species of cyphastrea I've seen - Goniopora is my best guess.

 

[HB AL]

Not cyphastria, maybe goni. Heres a cyphatria.

 

[OREGONIC]

+ 1 goni

 

[NanJ]

I was also thinking a short-polyp Goni. But when it closes up the skeleton doesn't look like the other two Gonis we have. Maybe it is a super happy Goni and never fully retracts. That doesn't sound like a Goni, does it? ;)

HB AL, great colony! Ours definitely does not look like that when it is closed.

Not cyphastria, maybe goni. Heres a cyphatria.