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MoshJosh
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From my few minutes of internet searching I can't seem to find an exact match, maybe something like this (though polyps in your picture look to be more green. . . but with differences in lighting it is hard to say):
tidalgardens.com
Though as said above it may not have a specific trade name.
Regardless it is a cool looking Monti!
Blue Polyp Mystery Montipora
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Though as said above it may not have a specific trade name.
Regardless it is a cool looking Monti!
SaltySqueeble
Valuable Member
Kind of funny/ironic that the closest you found was a simply “blue polyp mystery”From my few minutes of internet searching I can't seem to find an exact match, maybe something like this (though polyps in your picture look to be more green. . . but with differences in lighting it is hard to say):
Blue Polyp Mystery Montipora
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Though as said above it may not have a specific trade name.
Regardless it is a cool looking Monti!
For clarification here, are you looking for the trade name (like Sunset Monti or Season's Greetings Monti) or the scientific name (like Montipora digitata, M. setosa, etc.)?Guys
It’s a montipora ………?
It’s under white but it is THAT blue and 7” round
encrustingacro
2500 Club Member
Not M. undata; M. undata look more similar to confusa. What we call undata in the hobby are misidentified.
Type specimen of M. undata
Montipora is the genus, not the species. What you are thinking of as "subspecies" is species.
I would guess the species would be something like M. danae. IDK, I'm not well-versed in Acroporid species ID; too many species to remember.
PeterErc
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Depends where you look and who said what when, is it even really a Montipora lol
encrustingacro
2500 Club Member
The photo shown is the type specimen, which is what the species is defined on. Most of the photos in CotW do track with being similar to M. confusa. Photo 11 is a misidentification.
encrustingacro
2500 Club Member
A type specimen is what a species is based on. The type specimen of Montipora undata looks nothing like what we in the hobby call M. undata. Anybody can call any coral M. undata, but at the end of the day, only corals conforming to the morphology or genetics of said species's type specimen are Montipora undata.
Corals of the World is rife with misidentifications, and many of Veron's species concepts were wrong, so I would not fully trust CotW as a species-level ID guide. That being said, most of the photos in CotW's Montipora undata page look on par for M. undata, and are more similar to M. confusa than what the hobby calls M. undata. Photo 11, which the hobby's concept of M. undata is likely based on, is a misidentification.
