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[scotty333]

Guys
It’s a montipora ………?

It’s under white but it is THAT blue and 7” round

 

[SaltySqueeble]

Yes, monti

 

[scotty333]

Was looking for a surname not confirmation of species

 

[SaltySqueeble]

Oh there was a question mark after…. Who’s to say it has a “surname”? It’s mainly blue with purple and green hues?

 

[scotty333]

As far as I know monti species are broken down into sub species rather than just colour like pinky bluey greens orangey montipora

 

[SaltySqueeble]

Lots of corals have names, and some don’t . lots of corals go by color. Some names are just made up by the seller.

 

[scotty333]

Well I’ll just call it montipora blue delight and resell it for 2000$

 

[MoshJosh]

From my few minutes of internet searching I can't seem to find an exact match, maybe something like this (though polyps in your picture look to be more green. . . but with differences in lighting it is hard to say):

Blue Polyp Mystery Montipora

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tidalgardens.com

Though as said above it may not have a specific trade name.

Regardless it is a cool looking Monti!

 

[SaltySqueeble]

From my few minutes of internet searching I can't seem to find an exact match, maybe something like this (though polyps in your picture look to be more green. . . but with differences in lighting it is hard to say):

Blue Polyp Mystery Montipora

#html-body [data-pb-style=HCL2B6L],#html-body [data-pb-style=QHKLSGU],#html-body [data-pb-style=R20JVKS]{margin:5px}{{widget type="Magento\Cms\Block\Widget\Block" template="widget/static_block/default.phtml" block_id="69" type_name="CMS Static Block"}}<br><br>{{widget...

tidalgardens.com

Though as said above it may not have a specific trade name.

Regardless it is a cool looking Monti!

Kind of funny/ironic that the closest you found was a simply “blue polyp mystery”

 

[SaltySqueeble]

I love your piece, probably one of the coolest I’ve seen. SBB has some really cool blue/grafted to red, they called Deadpool

 

[scotty333]

Oh well for now it’s montipora sp.

 

[ISpeakForTheSeas]

Guys
It’s a montipora ………?

It’s under white but it is THAT blue and 7” round

For clarification here, are you looking for the trade name (like Sunset Monti or Season's Greetings Monti) or the scientific name (like Montipora digitata, M. setosa, etc.)?

 

[scotty333]

For clarification here, are you looking for the trade name (like Sunset Monti or Season's Greetings Monti) or the scientific name (like Montipora digitata, M. setosa, etc.)?

Both

 

[PeterErc]

Undata

 

[scotty333]

I’d say your right , fanks

 

[thamnasteroid]

Undata

Not M. undata; M. undata look more similar to confusa. What we call undata in the hobby are misidentified.
Type specimen of M. undata

Was looking for a surname not confirmation of species

As far as I know monti species are broken down into sub species rather than just colour like pinky bluey greens orangey montipora

Montipora is the genus, not the species. What you are thinking of as "subspecies" is species.

I would guess the species would be something like M. danae. IDK, I'm not well-versed in Acroporid species ID; too many species to remember.

 

[PeterErc]

Not M. undata; M. undata look more similar to confusa. What we call undata in the hobby are misidentified.
Type specimen of M. undata



Montipora is the genus, not the species. What you are thinking of as "subspecies" is species.

I would guess the species would be something like M. danae. IDK, I'm not well-versed in Acroporid species ID; too many species to remember.

Depends where you look and who said what when, is it even really a Montipora lol

http://www.coralsoftheworld.org/species_factsheets/species_factsheet_summary/montipora-undata/

 

[thamnasteroid]

Depends where you look and who said what when, is it even really a Montipora lol

http://www.coralsoftheworld.org/species_factsheets/species_factsheet_summary/montipora-undata/

The photo shown is the type specimen, which is what the species is defined on. Most of the photos in CotW do track with being similar to M. confusa. Photo 11 is a misidentification.

 

[PeterErc]

?

 

[thamnasteroid]

?

A type specimen is what a species is based on. The type specimen of Montipora undata looks nothing like what we in the hobby call M. undata. Anybody can call any coral M. undata, but at the end of the day, only corals conforming to the morphology or genetics of said species's type specimen are Montipora undata.
Corals of the World is rife with misidentifications, and many of Veron's species concepts were wrong, so I would not fully trust CotW as a species-level ID guide. That being said, most of the photos in CotW's Montipora undata page look on par for M. undata, and are more similar to M. confusa than what the hobby calls M. undata. Photo 11, which the hobby's concept of M. undata is likely based on, is a misidentification.