Little help with Id

[Smacks21294]

Looking to id this coral that I thought was a Montipora.

 

[Saltyreef]

Looking to id this coral that I thought was a Montipora.View attachment 3048632

Turbinaria peltata.

Beautiful colors too.

 

[Graffiti Spot]

Yea not sps but wow! That’s a beauty.

 

[encrustingacro]

Aberrant echinopora. I've seen this coral before.

Turbinaria peltata.

Beautiful colors too.

Pagoda cups generally come in green or gray and have polyps that look like mini duncans. Also, it's Duncanopsammia peltata, not Turbinaria.

WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Turbinaria peltata (Esper, 1790)

marinespecies.org

 

[Saltyreef]

Aberrant echinopora. I've seen this coral before.


Pagoda cups generally come in green or gray and have polyps that look like mini duncans. Also, it's Duncanopsammia peltata, not Turbinaria.

WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Turbinaria peltata (Esper, 1790)

marinespecies.org

Thanks for the correction! I thought i saw a hollywood stunner under those polyps! Very cool to see an echinopora with long frilly polyps as i never have seen that before. I would assume thats where it gets the name aberrant from....

Also, those two names are synonymous.

Coral Trait Database | Duncanopsammia peltata

coraltraits.org

 

[encrustingacro]

Thanks for the correction! I thought i saw a hollywood stunner under those polyps! Very cool to see an echinopora with long frilly polyps as i never have seen that before. I would assume thats where it gets the name aberrant from....

Also, those two names are synonymous.

Coral Trait Database | Duncanopsammia peltata

coraltraits.org

Those names being synonymous does not mean that they both can be used interchangeably. One of the names is the accepted combination, while the other is an unaccepted combination. If you look at the WoRMS link in my previous comment, you will see that Turbinaria peltata is the unaccepted combination.

 

[Saltyreef]

Those names being synonymous does not mean that they both can be used interchangeably. One of the names is the accepted combination, while the other is an unaccepted combination. If you look at the WoRMS link in my previous comment, you will see that Turbinaria peltata is the unaccepted combination.

Ok. Thanks for the clarification

 

[Dburr1014]

That is gorgeous.

I wish I was better at identifying coral.
I buy cuz it looks pretty. LOL.