Please help ID free coral from Tidal Gardens R2R live sale

[Jorda320]

Hi everyone,

I recently was lucky enough to get a free coral during tidal gardens last reef to reef live sale and cannot determine if this is a Porites which title gardens lists has requiring high light around 200 Par or if it is a stylocoenellia which tidal gardens list as low light somewhere in between 50 and 100 par. I'm super thrilled because this is my first free Coral and overall it looks really nice but I don't want to stick it in the wrong part of the tank and end up bleaching or starving it. It has the same color pattern as a burning banana Stylo but it doesn't seem to have any polyp extension and the texture looks to be a bit more like a purple sand dollar porites from tidal gardens website.
There was no name written on the bag when I received it and I doubt tidal gardens keeps track of their free coral sent out. Any info would really be appreciated as I don't want to kill this. I know the quality of these pictures is not the best but I did try to get it under a few different lighting spectrums. And I've included picture of the Stylo and porites from tidal gardens website to compare.

Thanks in advance

 

[BeltedCoyote]

Im guessing porites

Let’s see what everyone else thinks
@ReefSquad

 

[Jorda320]

I should point out that I typically run my lights closer to the white spectrum and even in that white I can see a yellowish green fluorescent color under the reddish polyps. That is what had me thinking it might be a stylo however if you exclude the color everything else in the picture does look like a Porites. This is what is confusing me the most.

 

[ImaFlippinDolphin]

Sand dollar

 

[BeltedCoyote]

I should point out that I typically run my lights closer to the white spectrum and even in that white I can see a yellowish green fluorescent color under the reddish polyps. That is what had me thinking it might be a stylo however if you exclude the color everything else in the picture does look like a Porites. This is what is confusing me the most.

excluding being a marine biologist with a focus on coral, it’ll need to grow some and reveal its growth pattern to see if it’s a stylo

 

[Jorda320]

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excluding being a marine biologist with a focus on coral, it’ll need to grow some and reveal its growth pattern to see if it’s a stylo

I see. Well since it's been two votes for porites I will stick this little guy on top of my rock work and see what happens. I'm super happy regardless and overall it looks like a really nice coral. Thank you all for your input.