What is this???
[IMG]http://i15.tinypic.com/6sjv9n8.jpg[/IMG]
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Maze Brain
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Yes, looks like an Oulophyllia to me.
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Oulophyllia crispa
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Judging from the hand in the background, I think the polyps are too small, too convoluted, and too angular to be Oulophyllia. My thought would be either Goniastrea or Platygyra.
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I second Goniastrea.
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OK, yes -- Gonastrea. Not Platygyra, for sure, since the corallite walls are too sloped (more vertical in Platygyra).
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Platygyra--
heres the aims pic: [img]http://www2.aims.gov.au/coralsearch/images/701-800/Large/752-03.jpg[/img] here the OP's [img]http://i15.tinypic.com/6sjv9n8.jpg[/img] here is the goniastrea favulus -- the closest goni sp. IMO. [img]http://www2.aims.gov.au/coralsearch/images/101-200/Large/190-03.jpg[/img] |
Sigh...the trials and tribulations of amateur taxonomy..I'm going to keep reading...
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Goniastrea australiensis, I would bet. Here is a pic from aims:
[img]http://www2.aims.gov.au/coralsearch/images/101-200/Large/188-06.jpg[/img] and here is one I got last summer in an aussie shipment listed as such. [img]http://www.edensgatecorals.com/australian/pinkgoniastrea.jpg[/img] |
I put a vote in for O. Crispa.
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Rather an insane price it is currently going for IMO.
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