Need ID

Tomasz · Aug 20, 2009

Sikryd said:
Cyphastrea would be my first guess without researching it.

No the polyps are soft (they retract).

Sikryd · Aug 20, 2009

Tomasz said:
No the polyps are soft (they retract).

Mine do that too. They don't retract all the way, but they look like the last pictures you posted when they are moved.

Sikryd · Aug 20, 2009

Cyphastrea Ocellina or Japonica . At least that would be my best guess.

stunreefer · Aug 20, 2009

The 24 tentacles on both those still lead me to think they're Goniopora sp. of some kind... the ridges around the coralites do not appear to be raised at all, where in Cyphastrea sp. they are at least somewhat. Definitely not your average Goniopora though, that's for sure...

Regardless, those are wicked Tom!

iani · Aug 20, 2009

I think the last two are Goniopora's as well.

Sikryd · Aug 20, 2009

stunreefer said:
The 24 tentacles on both those still lead me to think they're Goniopora sp. of some kind... the ridges around the coralites do not appear to be raised at all, where in Cyphastrea sp. they are at least somewhat. Definitely not your average Goniopora though, that's for sure...

Regardless, those are wicked Tom!

Thats what I was thinking with the tentacles. But I don't have a short tentacle goni to compare it to.

ianiwane said:
I think the last two are Goniopora's as well.

I was thinking the same thing, but the growth edge has me wondering since I don't have one personally.

I do know that my Cyphastrea doesn't have fully formed "polyps" like that on the growth rim, thats why I tend to think it is still a goni, like I thought from my first impression.