Stylophora or Pocillipora?

Stylophora or Pocillipora?

  • It's a Pocillipora damicornis

    Votes: 8 27.6%
  • It's a Stylophora pistillata

    Votes: 19 65.5%
  • It's an unknown, newly discovered coral (not!)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • I don't have a friggin' clue

    Votes: 2 6.9%

  • Total voters
    29

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I bought this as a catspaw or year or so ago--I figured at the time it was a Stylo because it only had a few club-head type branches but now as it's maturing and growing I'm having my doubts, especially since I have seen a couple pics on this forum with Stylos having larger, more rounded ends to the branches. I know it's a variable growth coral dependent upon it's environment, flow, etc but I'd like some other input. I'm hoping that uit is Stylophora and not Pocillipora damicornis...
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The Pocci behind it is a P. verucosa frag...they don't seem too similiar--I also have a large P. verucosa (pink-brown) that is also different. If anything it's vaguely similar to P. damicornis...but the branches aren't as wide as the one pictured above.
This pic from one of the other threads in this forum is different from mine above..maybe the flow makes the one belowm 'clubbier' than mine?
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thoughts?
 
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