Coral ID, is this a goniopora ?

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Hi guys, picked this up at our lfs they did not know its name, said they don't believe its a goniopora but i'm thinking it is or similar, does not have long stalks. Super bright and hardy so they say, so far its doing well just which I knew more about it.

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Looks like a nuclear green pally to me

(But Bernardpora is the short stem of the goni. Basically the same thing, just shorter stem.)
 
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Never seen a blasto have a stalk like this and be so far away from its bass, the colors and speckles do look like a blasto though.
 

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It's an aberrant Plesiastrea peroni

inb4 "P. peroni only occurs in subtropical/temperate Australia"
That is a myth that comes from the Reef Builders article covering the reclassification. They mixed it up--it's actually the other way around. P. peroni is the wide-spread Indo-Pacific species while P. versipora is the subtropical/temperate Australian endemic.

(But Bernardpora is the short stem of the goni. Basically the same thing, just shorter stem.)
Not really. Bernardpora can have longer stems (or at least the larger-polyped phenotype can). There are more differences between Goniopora and Bernardpora other than "stem" length.

Looks like a nuclear green pally to me
Not Palythoa; polyps too small, tentacles too short, and mesoglea (or coenosarc in this case) is not rough.

It almost looks like a green blasto that or green palys.
Blastomussa have signature vesicles on their oral disc and larger polyps. Blastomussa also have tentacles in between their vesicles, not just on the periphery of the oral disc. Blastomussa (in the hobby at least; loyae and omanensis don't occur in the hobby) are phaceloid, while this coral is either plocoid or cerioid.

I"m no expert by any means but I'd say it looks more like a duncan than a goni, aka: flowerpot
Duncans have larger polyps and are phaceloid, not plocoid/cerioid.

you might be on to something. does look exactly like this.
Not Bernardpora. If this was Bernardpora, this would probably be the larger polyped variety. However, this coral lacks the radiating stripes on the oral disc that the large-polyped variety has. The tentacles are also too small.
 
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Looks a litle more like Plesiastrea "versipora", regardless I believe you nailed it!​

versipora is a subtropical Australian endemic. The correct species is peroni.
 
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Found it its at worldwidecorals, funny it did remind me of leptastrea might be in the same genus very similar looking.


 
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Found it its at worldwidecorals, funny it did remind me of leptastrea might be in the same genus very similar looking.


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