What is a True Platygyra Maze Brain Coral?

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Despite what they are being called, most maze brain corals in the reef aquarium hobby are not actually Platygyra at all, but a different and distinctive species called Paragoniastrea australiensis or Paragon coral for short. The reasons for the misidentification are too numerous to enumerate in this write up but the end result of blanket labelling any maze…
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