Euphyllia _____ ?

[Woodstock]

Here is a closer picture. I tried to get a close up of the skeleton but it's a really big BRANCHING colony...

 

[Woodstock]

In the CORALS book by Julian Sprung, at the bottom of page 66 there is a photo of a hybrid with both parancora and paradivisa. Maybe it is this hybrid??

 

[steve-s]

Can you get a pic with the polyps drawn in. It would help to get a look at the skelatal structure, corallites and septa...

I'm thinking

Cheers
Steve

 

[wrightme43]

It looks to me, and this is only looks of course, like a hybrid torch and hammer coral. I could be wrong, if it were mine and with out knowledge otherwise that is what I would call it if it were in my tank. Steve

 

[Woodstock]

Steve-S: Sure. I will snap a photo first thing in the morning and post it.

Wrightme43: I am thinking the same thing.

 

[jlehigh]

My Frogspawn has green AND pink tips... I just thought that was typical..

 

[Anthony Calfo]

FWIW... it simply appears to be Euphyllia paradivisa, to me

A nice speciman at that

 

[mojoreef]

Euphyllia divisa



mike

 

[mojoreef]

Fat tentacles, short branches, hehehe


Mike

 

[Anthony Calfo]

phaceloid divisa/E. "paradivisa"

 

[mojoreef]

Bast***!! rofl


Mike

 

[Anthony Calfo]

heehee

I've been called worse (hey, wait a minute... by you! )

 

[Woodstock]

Thanks everyone!!!!

 

[steve-s]

Anthony,

What is the difference between a Euphyllia paradivisa and Euphyllia yayamaenis?

I have only ever seen one picture on About.com and it looks pretty much like your average frogspawn so I can only guess it's a miss ID. E. yayamaenis is mentioned in Eric's Coral book on pg 305 (green cover) but nothing really to distinguish it from others visually(?).

Cheers
Steve

 

[Anthony Calfo]

I cannot do anything more than go to the references... Veron, Wood?, etc. and see the graphs of corallite structure just as any fellow aquarist can/could do.

To then utilize that information requires we sacrifice at least one head/polyp.

And such IDs done by amateurs like us frankly are not only unreliable... but they are not even that useful

Heck... its not even interesting to me as it serves no practical purpose for/as hobbyists to speciate such similar congeners.

Its a fair question, indeed my friend... but one that ultimately we cannot answer while looking at pics or without sacrificing specimens. I am sure that most of us (aquarists) don't care enough about the matter to kill parts of our colonies.

Wait instead for an accident to provide a denuded corallite to satisfy such curiosities. Until them rely on genus names and species "types" (this coral is like "x", or c.f. "x")

 

[steve-s]

I am sure that most of us (aquarists) don't care enough about the matter to kill parts of our colonies.

No doubt there

Thanks for the relpy though!

Cheers
Steve