Different types of sun corals(tubastraea)?

[ryansweet]

Hey all, I am new to the non-photosynthetic coral life(corals in general actually). I have an orange sun(tubastraea aurea/faulkneri?) and was wondering what other types of sun corals people have. I would like to see some if you have pics
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[dendro982]

Here they are:
(ID are from forum posts, without references)

Pinkish-orange T. faulknery:

higher polyps skeleton, more or less uniform height

Bright orange T. coccinea:

very low polyps skelenot, height is variable

Both for comparison:

At right :
top - pale pink-orange Tubastrea faulknery,
bottom - intense orange T. coccinea.

Black tubastreas, closed and open:

On the left - compact low growing branching Tubastrea diaphana, very dark brown.
Right top - robust kind of Tubastrea micrantha (micranthus), more arboreal growth, different branching pattern, lighter brown.

Note that Tubastrea micrantha could be greenish:

This is hitchhiker on scleronephthya rock.

Yellow, very high skeleton, not branching - Tubastrea aurea:

There are also Tubastraea tagusensis (photo) and Tubastraea floreana (couldn't find photo, it is critically endangered).

Older thread about
Tubastrea colors.

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[dendro982]

Other members of the same family:

Lemon yellow branching dendrophyllia:

Salmon-pink branching dendrophyllia:

Here - when it is open (on the right):

Cold pink with small polyps, low and wide shape of the "bush", Cladopsammia gracilis:

Don't have rhyzos, balanophyllia and others. Classification is here.
HTH