SPS Coral ID please

[Raphael Dalmeida]

Hi guys can you ID this coral?

Hard encrusting skeleton like and tiny polyps.

 

[thamnasteroid]

I could be wrong, but it sort of looks like a heliopora. They are not SPS corals; they are stony ‘soft’ corals.

 

[SamMule]

Interesting. Psammacora? or maybe leptastrea? Is it supposed to be that translucent? Or is it a little bleached?

 

[Raphael Dalmeida]

Interesting. Psammacora? or maybe leptastrea? Is it supposed to be that translucent? Or is it a little bleached?

I don't think it's bleached, though I will try to get some better photos and send it here.

 

[i cant think]

stony ‘soft’ corals.

This just gets more confusing haha.
How can a coral be soft AND stony?

 

[thamnasteroid]

This just gets more confusing haha.
How can a coral be soft AND stony?

Soft corals are classified by having 8 tentacles on each polyp. They are classified in the subclass (I think that is the correct term) octocorallia. Heliopora have stony skeletons and are in the subclass octocorallia.

 

[Macdaddynick1]

Orange psammocora

 

[Dburr1014]

This just gets more confusing haha.
How can a coral be soft AND stony?

Blue Ridge is a perfect example

 

[i cant think]

Orange psammocora

Psammocora is beautiful, how tall does it branch to?