Lps id needed was purchased as a bubble coral

[North]

Hi Guys/Gals,

Needs an ID... was purchased as a bubble coral...

Please ID

No need to ID the hammer...

 

[PaulKreider]

Looks deflated, can you get a picture with just whites on?

 

[jedimasterben]

Better pictures are needed, but it appears to be Physogyra lichtensteini.

 

[DeepSeaReef]

Doesn't look like a bubble coral to me

 

[sqcube4me]

does not look like no bubble i have ever seen ..
this is what a bubble looks like ..

 

[North]

I will try to take better pics later today...

Photos were taken on IPhone so I apologize for the quality...

 

[TheSaint216]

That looks like a bubble coral. Looks like it was feeding in the first two pics.

 

[Russellaqua]

Better pictures are needed, but it appears to be Physogyra lichtensteini.

I agree with this. Physogyra lichtensteini is a species of bubble coral that looks like the coral in your pictures when it deflates and feeds. The bubble coral pictures posted by sqcube4me belong to the genus Plerogyra. This illustrates the problem with corals being sold by common name, as 2 different genera in this case are known as "bubble" corals. Other corals are often sold by genus, like ​Favia, Platygyra, etc.

 

[Tab28]

I have that same one. It is a pearl bubble coral. They have an irregular polyp shape. Some are very oddly shaped. No two are the same. Mine deflates at times and other timed will puff out more than twice its size. Also sends out long sweepers.

 

[PaulKreider]

^ looks the same to me.