Need help with coral id

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Can anyone help I'd this coral? Picked it up a few weeks ago. Polyps only opened up at night at first. Now partially open all day. Thx.

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Looks like moon or galaxy coral
 
Guy at LFS originally said favia, probably because it was closed up at the time. I was thinking some type goniopora too after it started to expand, but couldn't find any reference photos that looked close. Thx for the suggestions.
 
Hard to take a better photo. It's such a bright green that it blows out the photo when the lights are too bright.
 
Not sympodium. Sympodium is lumpier when the polyps are retracted, and looks like a tightly packed clove polyp when polyps are extended. Also, sympodium is a soft coral, and I'm guessing by the looks of it that this is a stony coral.
 

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