Help identifying this coral

[gcourtney13]

I would love some help identifying this coral

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

Maybe someone can make it out, but it might help if you can post a less blue picture

 

[Tahoe61]

Maybe someone can make it out, but it might help if you can post a less blue picture

^^^^ Yup.

 

[gcourtney13]

Maybe someone can make it out, but it might help if you can post a less blue picture

 

[gcourtney13]

I would love some help identifying this coral

 

[rayadog]

my vote til others speak up is hydnophora

 

[Tahoe61]

Hydnophora. A very aggressive coral. Give it a wide berth.

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

+3 for hydnophora

 

[Freenow54]

I would love some help identifying this coral

 

[Freenow54]

maybe

 

[thamnasteroid]

Hydnophora exesa

 

[thamnasteroid]

maybe

not Psammocora or Monti; note monticules. Hydnophora also don't have petaloid septa or papillae, which the Psammocora and Montipora shown in your photos have.

 

[Freenow54]

not Psammocora or Monti; note monticules. Hydnophora also don't have petaloid septa or papillae, which the Psammocora and Montipora shown in your photos have.

Ok good to know , and thanks for the education. I spent a lot of time trying to find those photos on a web site and then trying different ways of actually saving them in my photos on my PC . Quite a project using links and such . So When I finally got them on my post it was well after your post . I could not see nor wanted to risk loosing my stuff so inadvertently posted over you did not think anyone was trying to help this person so it was the last thing on my mind. So did not intentionally try to trump you.

 

[Freenow54]

+3 for hydnophora

I had no idea so spent a lot of time surfing and did not think anyone was interested in helping so did not see the posts as I was busy figuring out how to save the photos was not easy so not trying to one up anyone