Montipora or Cyphastrea ... is this?

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I've had this for many years which I believe is some form of Montipora or Cyphastrea but I may be wrong on both. It has bright neon green polyps and last night I had to cut off more than half of it's spherical colony as it was slowly wasting away from STN. I took some shots of it right before the "cut" last night. Thanks for looking
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IMO I believe it's an astreopora. They have polyps on mounds, or small bumps, meanwhile cyphastrea don't (As far as I've seen). Tidal Gardens has a great video on Youtube that compares the two, and explains the differences.
 
Corallites' costa is bumpy and not ridged=astreopora
 

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