The difference between a millie and a tenuis ?

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Tenuis is my fav coral. I have a few millies, at least ideas told they were when I bought them. My question is how can I tell the difference between a millie and a tenuis ?
 
Millepora have a very perfectly rounded C shaped corallite. Tenuis corallite have a small dip or point in the lip. Millepora also tend to have polyps with a long “center” polyp while the rest are all a shorter size and often even a different color.
 
Examples.

Walt Disney tenuis. See how the corallites have a small dip? Also see how the polyps are all even length?
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Sunrise Millepora example. See how the corallites are a perfect C and the polyps each have that one long one in the middle?
A5288EA7-DE71-4B84-AA6E-6CC6DEDCA18F.jpeg
 
Examples.

Walt Disney tenuis. See how the corallites have a small dip? Also see how the polyps are all even length?
92476957-30AB-4390-9612-5CE83850A8BD.jpeg


Sunrise Millepora example. See how the corallites are a perfect C and the polyps each have that one long one in the middle?
A5288EA7-DE71-4B84-AA6E-6CC6DEDCA18F.jpeg
So this is a tenuis

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Examples.

Walt Disney tenuis. See how the corallites have a small dip? Also see how the polyps are all even length?
92476957-30AB-4390-9612-5CE83850A8BD.jpeg


Sunrise Millepora example. See how the corallites are a perfect C and the polyps each have that one long one in the middle?
A5288EA7-DE71-4B84-AA6E-6CC6DEDCA18F.jpeg
And this is a millie

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