What is the difference if any?
Echino VS Chalice Differece?
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"Chalice" is a common name given to many species, even different families/genus of coral. "Echino" is short for Echinophyllia... Echinophyllia is a genus of coral (with eight different species) that is many times labeled with the common name "chalice" especially Echinophyllia aspera.
Here you can see the different species of Echinophyllia: http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=53457
Here you can see the different species of Echinophyllia: http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=53457
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there all one in the same, they come from the Pectiniidae Family which consist of the genus echinophyllia, genus mycedium, and genus oxypora
http://www.wetwebmedia.com/pectiniids.htm
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Does it have anything to do with the way they eat. I have noticed some of my "chalices" have prominent mouths while some do not? Like I have a green chalice that has big eyes while my big pimpin and lime in the sky have very very small eyes.
that's one way to tell them apart. The larger mouths/eyes on a Mycedium are raised and prominent, whereas an Echinophyllia Aspera has tiny mouths/eyes, so it can be a tell tale sign if your identifying them. Although each genus as several species so "chalice" is a generic term to cover all the bases so to speak
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Pectiniidae consits of six genera:
Echinophyllia, Mycedium, Oxypora, Pectinia, Ehinomorpha, Physophyllia
