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What’s unknown? Looks like a regular dendronepthea.
No kidding. Very cool. Where’d ya get it?
Thanks for sharing, comrade, beautiful coralNope. it's not. I hadn't been able to ID it so I sent photos to a biologist who co-wrote the book on soft corals. He said there were aspects about it that he'd never seen before (there are large spaces between the sclerites) and I've been trying to get photos good enough for him to analyze. Also, it appears to have brown in the polyps at the base and some of the stem, which suggests photos synthetic. It behaves like an almost completely photosynthetic coral. He said he thought it could be a Stereonephthya except for the odd spaces. The polyps are also behave like tube worms. Grabbing, popping in and out, very quickly at times. "Pulse" if you will.
Conclusion? Possibly a whole new species, he doesn't know yet. He's going to send stuff off to another expert in the field then let me know if he needs tissue samples.
Gorgeous corals.