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Originally posted by Sheol
..... Just remember, Favia the corallites are always seperate & disticnt......
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That is a general rule to follow, but not a definitive rule when deciding specie but rather a feature that can collaboratively help along with other physicalities. For example look at Favites bestae:
http://www2.aims.gov.au/coralsearch/...0pages/750.htm
Visually the tissue looks like it's seperated and indeed the skeleton has individual corallite walls.
Or the Favia rotundata
http://www2.aims.gov.au/coralsearch/...0pages/167.htm
or even a better example, Favia rotumana:
http://www2.aims.gov.au/coralsearch/...0pages/156.htm
where some morphs look like both favites and favia and even the skeleton is fairly inconspicuous. Hard stuff to figure out especially when you include variants that effect there physicality like light and moreso, flow.
-Justin