May 17, 2019
I vote we have a polyp party, let's post pics of our favorite corals, either in our tanks or our dream picks. These are all from my coral QT.
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I vote we have a polyp party, let's post pics of our favorite corals, either in our tanks or our dream picks. These are all from my coral QT.
Green Brain Coral - Goniastrea sp.
What you see in this photo is a live Green Brain Coral of the genus Goniastrea (Scleractinia - Faviidae), which is widespread in the Indo-Pacific forming massive mounds, thick encrusting colonies or may tend towards columns. Colonies are common in sub-tidal and some inter-tidal areas.
The corallites of Goniastrea vary from single-mouth, rounded with shared walls through to multiple-mouth, weakly meandering with thin shared walls. Corallites are neat with fine, uniform septa (purple in the photo).
Technique: Phase contrast illumination
Reference: [1]
Photo credit: ©James H. Nicholson | Olympus BioScapes International Digital Imaging Competition (2011)
A closeup of the polyps of some Goniastrea aspera