identify coral, im thinking a bounce chalice

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Merulinidae sp. (probably really deformed Dipsastraea), not chalice
 
I'm going to defer to @thamnasteroid for this one. He knows this stuff better than me. One corallite wall sharing multiple mouths is a very telling trait, but I don't know it off the top of my head.

This isn't a Scolymia or Favia. There are many corals sold as Favia in the hobby, but that genus is restricted to the Atlantic, where it is very illegal to collect coral. The large oral plate rules out many of the genera labelled as chalices in the hobby.
 

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