Favia? Don't think so?

[Susan Edwards]

I thought this freebee frag was a favia but the cells are merging so not sure. Not the best pic. Can try with lights on tomorrow. It is a fast grower.

1st pic now. 2nd when i got it

 

[vetteguy53081]

Looks like micro favia or favites

 

[encrustingacro]

It is not a favia as after a reclassification, favia became limited to the Atlantic, where no stony corals are collected. Your coral is most likely a dipsastraea, which is where most of the indo-pacific favias were moved to.

 

[Cell]

It is not a favia as after a reclassification, favia became limited to the Atlantic, where no stony corals are collected. Your coral is most likely a dipsastraea, which is where most of the indo-pacific favias were moved to.

You need a hotkey for this by now.

 

[Susan Edwards]

It is not a favia as after a reclassification, favia became limited to the Atlantic, where no stony corals are collected. Your coral is most likely a dipsastraea, which is where most of the indo-pacific favias were moved to.

so does that mean all my favia's are dipsastraea? Here is a better picture. What made me question what it is is the way the cells have merged. My other 2 favias have round corals each separated from the others. This one has started to merge. Pardon my cloudy water--raked and blasted half the sandbed and then used the diy snow

 

[encrustingacro]

so does that mean all my favia's are dipsastraea? Here is a better picture. What made me question what it is is the way the cells have merged. My other 2 favias have round corals each separated from the others. This one has started to merge. Pardon my cloudy water--raked and blasted half the sandbed and then used the diy snow

Not necessarily all of your ‘favias‘ are dipsastraeas, but none of your ‘favias‘ are actually favia. Some former favia species have been moved to favites and goniastrea. There are also some favia lookalikes, such as the ex-phymastrea species, diploastrea, and some of the paramontastreas. Many more corals are misidentified as favia, most of them from the genera of favites, platygyra, and coelastrea.

 

[Susan Edwards]

Not necessarily all of your ‘favias‘ are dipsastraeas, but none of your ‘favias‘ are actually favia. Some former favia species have been moved to favites and goniastrea. There are also some favia lookalikes, such as the ex-phymastrea species, diploastrea, and some of the paramontastreas. Many more corals are misidentified as favia, most of them from the genera of favites, platygyra, and coelastrea.

wow. learning new stuff. What would you classify these as so I can update my spreadsheet

first one is a no name. Second one I think is a

Favia OGA Joker Maze

 

[encrustingacro]

wow. learning new stuff. What would you classify these as so I can update my spreadsheet

first one is a no name. Second one I think is a

Favia OGA Joker Maze

If a coral is favia-like, it usually is in the family merulinidae. There are exceptions to this rule, such as diploastrea, which is in its own family.
I would say that both of those corals are merulinids. The 2nd one looks like a dipsastraea. I don’t know what the 1st one is.