ID please

[GinaSofia]

By far,my favorite but other than thinking it's some type of favia-I don't know what it is.Anyone know?

 

[mosesbrown]

http://www.melevsreef.com/id/

This web site has some great pics for identification. You may have to turn off you pop up blocker to get some of the info that pops in a seperate window when you click on the thumb nail. Hope it helps.

 

[GinaSofia]

Thank you..it looks like a latygyra pini.

 

[Justin74]

All I know is it screams LOOK AT ME ! ! :lol2: ! Really stunning piece

-Justin

 

[Justin74]

Btw, thats not a platygyra. Youll be more apt to find a more definative "good guess" here:
http://www2.aims.gov.au/coralsearch/coralid_search.php

-Justin

 

[Giovanni]

I think you need to frag it and send me a piece for ID in my tank.

 

[theop]

That's a favites and very nice looking. On a favia the polyps don't share a wall (sclerites), while on a favites they do.

 

[Giovanni]

theop,

Can you provide a photo of favia for comparison and education? Thanks

 

[theop]

There are lots of pictures of several different species here. You can see that for the favia, each polyp has it own distinct wall, but for favites, adjacent polyps share a wall.

However, now that I look more closely at the picture, it could be a favia. They can be difficult to tell apart.

 

[danch]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9160476#post9160476 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Justin74
Btw, thats not a platygyra. Youll be more apt to find a more definative "good guess" here:
http://www2.aims.gov.au/coralsearch/coralid_search.php

-Justin

Why not platygyra?

 

[Justin74]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9168826#post9168826 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by danch
Why not platygyra?

Better question, why platygyra?
The coralites walls are much more raised and defined in platygyra and where there not, there meandering walls set them apart fairly well as a distinctive trait, this coral looks more like a favites at first glance but the longer you look at it you can kinda make out seperations of coralites indicative of favia.

-Justin

 

[RandyO]

Trying to ID a coral from a picture alone is pretty close to impossible.

That said, it looks like a Goniastrea to me.

Maybe G. aspera

Characters: Colonies are massive to encrusting. Corallites are angular in shape and have thick walls. Long and short septa generally alternate. Paliform lobes are well developed in colonies from turbid water but may be absent in colonies from exposed habitats. Colour: Usually pale brown. Corallite centres are often cream. Similar species: Goniastrea edwardsi, which has similar skeletal structures but is much smaller. See also Favites pentagona and F. halicora. Habitat: Usually intertidal habitats where different colonies may adjoin to form flat expanses frequently over 5 metres across. Also occurs in protected turbid environments. Abundance: Sometimes common and may be a dominant species.


Source reference: Veron (2000). Taxonomic reference: Veron, Pichon and Wijsman-Best (1977). Identification guides: Veron (1986), Nishihira and Veron (1995).

 

[Justin74]

I followed the goniastrea and is similar to.. and ended up with a Favia abdita that looks like it too :lol:

-Justin

 

[GinaSofia]

well,whatever it is I'd better lower it-it used to much more vibrant in the red portion..it is a quick grower though and has rapidly recovered from stings of other corals.

Here's a slightly better pic:

Now,I bought this Acan-something or other from a friend but I don't recall what he said it was.Can someone ID it for me?
I tend to buy corals for their looks not their names but after a while,the curiosity gets to me.Thanks again.