Help id coral

Falc! · Nov 3, 2023

I’ve had this guy for some time now, scored locally, all brown and dying about 1/6th the size he is now. no idea what it is and have wondered since I got him. He was flat flat but has some interesting growth now. I assume it’s some sort of monti but not sure. Pics in different lighting but he is very bright green and polyps are white in person, just hard to get a perfect rendering of true color in pics

thamnasteroid · Nov 3, 2023

Montipora

Falc! · Nov 4, 2023

encrustingacro said:
Montipora

But what kind of monti, I’m pretty sure it’s not a cap

thamnasteroid · Nov 4, 2023

Falc! said:
But what kind of monti, I’m pretty sure it’s not a cap

Not sure; there are ~250 nominal species of Montipora, many of them lost to the annals of museum collections and university libraries.

What we call "Montipora capricornis" are actually a multitude of other foliose Montipora species, such as M. aquituberculata, M. foliosa, or M. hogdsoni.