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Thanks for the reply. Hopefully this helps!Can you post another pic from the top? Looks like a favia but hard to tell from the picture.
Looks like acan enchinata or bowerbanki- Hard to clearly see on my phone
Not necessarily echinata, as most of the Acanthastrea species (brevis, echinata, subechinata, hemprichii, rotundoflora) are poorly differentiated from each other.I think its those acan echinata no clue what are they called now though (name been changing a lot)
Favia don't occur in the hobbyCan you post another pic from the top? Looks like a favia but hard to tell from the picture.
Not Homophyllia bowerbanki; corallites not large enough & flesh texture isn't rightLooks like acan enchinata or bowerbanki- Hard to clearly see on my phone
How do u tell the other ones? (brevis, echinata, subechinata, hemprichii, rotundoflora) from each other?Acanthastrea sp.
Not necessarily echinata, as most of the Acanthastrea species (brevis, echinata, subechinata, hemprichii, rotundoflora) are poorly differentiated from each other.
Favia don't occur in the hobby
Not Homophyllia bowerbanki; corallites not large enough & flesh texture isn't right
Not much work has been done to delimit these five species from each other genetically, but Veron differentiates the morphospecies this way: Acanthastrea echinata has medium-sized, fleshy polyps with concentric wrinkles and "warts"; A. subechinata has smaller, less fleshy corallites without concentric wrinkles, A. brevis is not fleshy to the point of having visible septal teeth, A. hemprichii looks similar to Homophyllia bowerbanki but is separated by biogeogeaphical distribution ([non-pachysepta] Acanthastrea does not occur in Australia, and Homophyllia [Scolies and bowerbankis] don't occur outside of Australia [although they rarely occur in New Caledonia]); and A. rotundofloria is Echinophyllia-like. In reality, these differences could be chalked up to morphological variation, and either these phenotypes are all likely a single species, or the species boundaries are actually based on biogeography instead of morphology.How do u tell the other ones? (brevis, echinata, subechinata, hemprichii, rotundoflora) from each other?