Please help with this hard id

[Jake1]

Not even sure it's a Sps the person I got it from thinks it's a Sps so I mounted it standing up, I believe it could be a branching favia but I am not expert.

 

[Landon]

psammocora?

 

[ritter6788]

Does it get really hairy? Could be Hydnophora rigida.

 

[Jake1]

Does it get really hairy? Could be Hydnophora rigida.

Yes it does

 

[robsreefs]

Not even sure it's a Sps the person I got it from thinks it's a Sps so I mounted it standing up, I believe it could be a branching favia but I am not expert.

I don't think their is a such thing as a branching favia

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[Jake1]

I don't think their is a such thing as a branching favia

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There is I read it in a magazine I'll go back and get the name of it.

 

[aquabull]

Psammocora superficialis?

 

[Cooterbrown]

Looks kinda like a pavona

 

[swannyson7]

Looks like a psammocora to me

 

[returnofsid]

It's not a Hydnophora. Hydnophora has a very distince corallite shape, which does not match the photo.

I'd suggest researching Merulina ampliata

 

[Bongo Shrimp]

Pavona decussata or Cactus coral.

 

[TulsaTye]

I agree with Ritteri...looks like Hydnophora!?

 

[swannyson7]

Pavona decussata or Cactus coral.

I stand corrected, that does look a lot closer than a psammocora

 

[jonbar1]

I agree, Pavona. They call them Potato Chip Coral around here.

 

[returnofsid]

It took me awhile to find it, sifting through my photos, but here's an old photo of a Hydnophora I used to have. All Hyndophora show this very distinctive "pyramid" shaped corallite...

I'm leaning towards Psammacora, Pavona or Muralina...

 

[Jake1]

Pavona decussata or Cactus coral.

That is it!! Thanks