Possible LFS mis-label

[Tab28]

I bought this as a long tentacle leptoseris, which i never heard of. So had to have it. I tried getting picture and i saw a mouth. I thought it looks a lot like a lithophyllon but much more tentacles, but still not a leptoseris. What do you guys think.

Without flash. Note mouth on top.

Compare to my JF jack-o-lantern

 

[dnov99]

Can you take a zoomed out pic? It looks like a plate coral still attached to the rock.

Its 100% not a leptoseris or related to it.

 

[Tab28]

It looks like a cycloseris. The LFS is a licensed coral grower. They propagate their own corals. Which is odd since they generally know their stuff. That said it is not what they said it is. They said they have been growing it and fragging it for years. So it is not a cycloseris.

 

[Sully]

Following.

 

[dnov99]

Very odd, agreed that it looks like a cycloseris. Is it encrusting over the rock? Tough to tell due to the grainy quality of the photo.

 

[FateX8]

i would ask to see the mother colony if they say they have been growing it for years. not as an insult or anything just to see what you have. im going to agree with cycloseris

 

[Tab28]

Well heard back on this coral. They have had it for years. Got it from supplier as long tentacle leptoseris. Have always sold it with that name. They also said the coral encrusts. No other growth habit other that encrusting. Which is leptosersis in habit.

The mouth in my first picture is not consistent with leptosersis, which is arguable is LPS or SPS. But first picture there is no argument it is LPS. So cycloseris is out since it encrusts and I believe lithophyllon is a plating, or at least all I have seen.

 

[Tab28]

I was at WWC last week. They had a green rimmed lepto. It looked very similar. So there may be either a species that uses lepto as its nickname. Or like hydnophora exesa. It is an sps but has all characteristics of lps, even the large mouth.