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A little help with identification on this coral I rescued a 2 month ago. It’s healing up nicely but I’m still a little stumped on the exact species. It’s a decent size and kinda looks like an inbetween a symphyllia or lobophyllia. I would say the diameter is 3” x 5”
What are your thoughts experts…..
thank you

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It has a skeleton? It kinda looks like a yuma to me with the little fingers on the edges.
 

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A little help with identification on this coral I rescued a 2 month ago. It’s healing up nicely but I’m still a little stumped on the exact species. It’s a decent size and kinda looks like an inbetween a symphyllia or lobophyllia. I would say the diameter is 3” x 5”
What are your thoughts experts…..
thank you

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The skeleton at the edges makes me feel like you might have an Acantho in your hands. The shape of the mouth too.
 
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The skeleton at the edges makes me feel like you might have an Acantho in your hands. The shape of the mouth too.
Wow. It’s that’s the case , this definitely is in a rougher state than originally thought.

Well it’s improving anyways, gonna take a while to recover likely as acantho isn’t a super fast grower
 

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A little help with identification on this coral I rescued a 2 month ago. It’s healing up nicely but I’m still a little stumped on the exact species. It’s a decent size and kinda looks like an inbetween a symphyllia or lobophyllia. I would say the diameter is 3” x 5”
What are your thoughts experts…..
thank you

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Symphyllia is a synonym for Lobophyllia, so both are still useable in a way but Lobophyllia is the genus.
 
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