ID please. I can't find it.

[Anonymous]

It was traded as a more-than-half-dead favites.

But there's seperate walls if you look close. There's also some skeleton showing, so that should help. It might be a platygyra daedelea. That's the closest pic I can find in E.Borneman. Someone have an extra copy of corals of the world sitting around they'd like to give me?

Thanks
B

 

[Anonymous]

Here's a better pic of the coral

 

[Anonymous]

Hmm. I didn't think Platygyra had separate corallites like that...but I'm sitting at work right now, with no books nearby. <shrug> Hopefully someone else will chime in. Nice looking coral...

 

[Anonymous]

Your serving drinks at 8 am Matt?

I think your on the right direction, my copy of Corals of the World is out in the car, I'm only looking thru Corals of Australia and the Indo Pacific right now. It slightly resembles p. pini in this book. Hopefully some one else will chime in with more info then this Sorry

 

[Anonymous]

You could always try AIM

 

[Anonymous]

anyone?

Bueller?


B

 

[Anonymous]

I don't do coral ID's as a rule; from those 2 pictures it's impossible to even peg it down to genus.

Regards,
David Mohr

 

[Anonymous]

Looks like a Favia species to me. Usually the skeleton can give you some help identifying it, as I recall, some corals can ONLY be identified by the skeleton.

I have no skeleton pics to give you for comparison though. Sorry.