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Sold as a hammer. I'm thinking no. It doesn't extend further than an inch at most. I was thinking cristata but it's a very unique color for that species... orange/gold with green tips.
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Euphyllia (now Fimbriaphyllia) paraancora
Why do you think so?
I'd say about 50% of the ends are circular like torches and the other 50% are oblong. but there's not like Ah hah! that's a hammer... at least to me.
Precisely! So F. paraancora is sometimes referred to as a "false hammer" since it does not have true hammer heads on the tentacles of their polyps. The morphology of this species is rather variable with some tentacles looking rounded, some being blunted, and some curving backwards (almost like a true hammer F. ancora). However as it's name suggests it's just not quite the same (if ancora = hammer, then paraancora is well, a hammer sort of).
I made this ID based off the shape of the tentacles first and since for all practical purposes there are only 2 species of hammer that enter our hobby, I narrowed it down to this. But I could be wrong. The best way to ID any coral is to examine their skeleton (so if you could snap a pic later with lights off, that might help) especially since different environmental factors can affect the appearance of really any coral
It's kinda like a figure eight, like almost two oval heads, but they're still connected in the middle.Hmm maybe it is E. cristata since I can see some nice septal teeth. Is the skeleton branching or more star-shaped? (can't really tell from the pic)
Looks like a wall hammer crossed with an aussie torch..... not sure. def not a grape coral or any other branching LPS
+1I'm going with euphyllia glabrescens