Help ID this please

cmacinnes34 · Oct 12, 2021

Hello hello, could someone please identify what this coral is? Starting to shed a ton and will have some nice pieces from it.

blaxsun · Oct 12, 2021

No idea, but it's nice.

nereefpat · Oct 13, 2021

Is that stony? It looks leathery?

Cell · Oct 13, 2021

Pink digi?

Uzidaisies · Oct 13, 2021

Looks like Sinularia to me.

cmacinnes34 · Oct 13, 2021

nereefpat said:
Is that stony? It looks leathery?

It isn't stony, likes a lot of flow.

Uzidaisies · Oct 13, 2021

cmacinnes34 said:
It isn't stony, likes a lot of flow.

It’s just that you put this thread under small polyp stony coral.

Sharkbait19 · Oct 13, 2021

Looks like a devils hand leather.

Uzidaisies · Oct 13, 2021

Ah yeah or that, I’m not familiar enough to tell them apart.

nereefpat · Oct 13, 2021

Devil's hand and finger leather and other similar leathers are all in the Sinularia genus.

Either way, its some type of finger-y hand-y leather.

DeniseAndy · Oct 13, 2021

+1 to nereefpat. Sinularia sp.

Uzidaisies · Oct 13, 2021

nereefpat said:
Devil's hand and finger leather and other similar leathers are all in the Sinularia genus.

Either way, its some type of finger-y hand-y leather.

I thought devils hand was Lobophytum

DeniseAndy · Oct 13, 2021

The normal Devils hand is Lobophylia, but some call this thinner finger one that too. No commonality. I would have called this a finger leather. Finer branches than a Lobophylia.

nereefpat · Oct 13, 2021

Uzidaisies said:
I thought devils hand was Lobophytum

Looks like that is right. There are lots of leathers and lots of common names for them.

Sharkbait19 · Oct 13, 2021

Uzidaisies said:
I thought devils hand was Lobophytum

It is, that and thick finger.
Sinu is cabbage and the classic finger leather (most commonly referred to as sinu).
Sarco is toadstool.
My devils hand looks just like the one in the op’s post, but smaller.
You can tell the difference between sinu and devils hand based on the amount of polyps (fewer on lobo) and the length of fingers (fewer but longer fingers on lobo and shorter but more on sinu).

Uzidaisies · Oct 13, 2021

Sharkbait19 said:
It is, that and thick finger.
Sinu is cabbage and the classic finger leather (most commonly referred to as sinu).
Sarco is toadstool.
My devils hand looks just like the one in the op’s post, but smaller.
You can tell the difference between sinu and devils hand based on the amount of polyps (fewer on lobo) and the length of fingers (fewer but longer fingers on lobo and shorter but more on sinu).

I feel like there’s another genus still that looks very much similar to Sinularia, but I can’t remember the name.