Help to identify coral like purple clove polyp

[alavas]

I got with a candy cane coral some hitchhiker what is obviously soft, it has eight petals and looks like a purple clove polyp but polyps more look like alveopora.

What it could be? Just specific purple clove polyp or something else?

 

[cloak]

+1 clove polyp

I think Alveopora has 12 "tentacles" per polyp.

 

[ISpeakForTheSeas]

I got with a candy cane coral some hitchhiker what is obviously soft, it has eight petals and looks like a purple clove polyp but polyps more look like alveopora.

What it could be? Just specific purple clove polyp or something else?

Welcome to Reef2Reef!

I'm no good with octocoral ID's yet, but the thick, fleshy, unbranched tentacles of the polyp are quite unique (eliminating most of the well-known, invasive species such as Clove Polyps, Anthelia, Sarcothelia, Xenia, etc.), so hopefully someone will know exactly what you've got there.

 

[ryanjohn1]

More than likely it brown star polyp. And your lights are making it look purple.