Psammocora... ?

[aqua80]

bought this frag today (ho!ho!ho! )

wondering what kind of psammocora it is...

it is reallly bright !

thx

 

[SushiGirl]

Looks more like a plate. My Psammocora looks nothing like that.

 

[aqua80]

an encrusting plate with multiple mouths ?

 

[aqua80]

here is a pic with polyps less extended :

weird coral for sure either sps or lps....

 

[SushiGirl]

Someone had a "plate" with multiple mouths on a thread here, no one was quite sure exactly what it was. That's definitely an LPS. Psammocora is an SPS. This is my Psammocora (there are other colors/various growth patterns).


This is about as good as polyp extension gets on these.

 

[aqua80]

that is a nice coral you got there !

I've post theses photos in the lps forum too...

here is a pic of another coral that was sold as a psammocora this summer in a LFS here...
Looks a lot like mine :

I know there are many species of psammocora, maybe some have more polyps extensions than the other ?
Or some fungias have many mouths !

 

[aqua80]

I think I found something very close...

diasteris distorta :

http://coral.aims.gov.au/speciesPages/species_metadata/0132/view#

like this one :

http://coraltheory.com/orang-killer-diaseris-colony-wysiwyg-diaseris-distorta

 

[SushiGirl]

I haven't found anything that looks like those in a search on Psammocora.

 

[Frick]

I think I found something very close...

diasteris distorta :

http://coral.aims.gov.au/speciesPages/species_metadata/0132/view#

like this one :

http://coraltheory.com/orang-killer-diaseris-colony-wysiwyg-diaseris-distorta

I agree. Another possibility could be Lithophyllon undulatum if it encrust.
http://coral.aims.gov.au/speciesPages/species_metadata/0876/view#

 

[aqua80]

thanks Frick !

I think we have a winner with the lithophyllon undulatum...
diasteris distorta seems to have an clean circular growth edge that my frag doesn't seems to have...

will update this thread after some growth