suns or dendro's?

[sp1187]

these were sold to me as sun coral.
someone told me they think they are dendro's.
what are the identifiers between the two?

 

[James M]

Sun coral

 

[Hermie]

technically "sun corals" and dendros both come from the family "Dendrophylliidae" so one could argue that sun corals are also "dendros"
my point is that they are very closely related species (Tubastrea aka "sun corals" and Dendrophyllia aka "dendros"), and there are also many undescribed species...

Odds are that it's a sun coral (aka Tubastrea species), it's hard to say without more growth


https://reefs.com/magazine/field-guide-sun-corals/