Encrusting coral ID

[jonny]

Not sure if this would be considered SPS or LPS a the polyps are significantly larger than those on montipora..its encrusting green polyps with a reddish base..seems to be very hardy as when i moved and lost all my montipora..this guy still had polyps extended haha..

Here it is next to some zoas for size comparison..any help would be appreciated, thanks!

 

[Mr. E Wrasse]

Looks like tubinaria but not sure!

 

[jonny]

Don't think it's tubinaria..cause i have that too lol..here's a pic comparing the two..

 

[bucksfan1976]

reverse pagoda cup?

 

[Connie]

Pipe Organ maybe?

 

[jonny]

Polyps look a little too small for pagoda cup, and I don't think it's pipe organ as it doesn't have the little tubes...thank for the responses guys, keep em coming, this thing has been driving me nuts haha

 

[Alwaysalty]

Looks like a happy cyphastrea with its polyps way out there.

 

[jonny]

Looks like a happy cyphastrea with its polyps way out there.

Holy moly I think you're right I never considered that because it doesn't look like meteor shower..thanks a ton! I've spent hours googling things like..green encrusting coral..green encrusting small polyps..and things like that lol

 

[82engineer]

+1 on cyphastrea

 

[Frick]

What does it look like when the polyps are closed? It's hard to ID the species with those in the way.

 

[jonny]

Thats about as closed as I could get them haha

 

[Frick]

Just wanted to see if the corallites were that size too. Also if there were septa present (little thin walls in the corallites dividing it into 12 slices). If there are 12 septa in the corallites then yes Cyphastrea, if not then something else. Possibly an Astreopra species, which i have seen and fragged that looked like this.
http://coral.aims.gov.au/factsheet.jsp?speciesCode=0128
[URL]http://coral.aims.gov.au/factsheet.jsp?speciesCode=0099
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