how to classify a chalice....

[Troylee]

Nice!!!!^^^^ that's what I'm looking for man.... Thank you for clearing up alot of that...
I will have to check out that book.... ;) I'm really new to chalices always been about the sticks and never cared nor researched chalices untill recently...

 

[bkss709]

How about this one and sorry just feed him in this Picture.

 

[iani]

well pretty much i knew one kind of chalice...."scientific name anyways" *echinophyllia* which to me means a tight skin chalice with the eyes raised up to what looks like mini volcano's amongst the body lol.... and a oxypora to me is a smooth tight skin chalice with very small bumps or nipples here and there with the eyes flat on the surface..... i don't know the others...:( out of all my chalices i like the smooth skin, puffy ones that inflate you can hit them with a turkey baster and they move..... then the eye thing came along because some chalies are called by there eyes IE>" emerald mummy eye" what kind of chalice is that referring to??? any chalice with a certain colored eye???

Emerald mummy eye refers to only one chalice. This chalice was named by Whodah? of exoticfrags. I believe it was named "emerald mummy eye" because it looked like the coral he named mummy eye except the body was emerald in color. As Sang mentioned there is an interesting story behind the mummy eye name. I just don't remember the details.

There is no rhyme or reason in most common names. Names are mostly arbitrary.

 

[Nanofins]

@ bkss: looks like an Echinophylia sp to me.

 

[Ian]

As Sang mentioned there is an interesting story behind the mummy eye name. I just don't remember the details.

Something about the store owner where it came from. His name was Mum or something like that....