Need ID on this sps

[FuEl]

I hope the gurus here can help me identify this piece of sps.. It's can be found locally....

The skeleton looks like those of porites..but then when the polyps are open they resemble that of small little anemones?

Below is the pic..hope it is clear enough...

Any help would be appreciated..thanks!

[Joe_P]

think you got a Goniopora....

[FuEl]

Ah...encrusting goniopora? No wonder the skeleton look abit like the red goniopora in ML's display tank.......thanks Joe!

[DeepBlue]

red ones will look like that. right?? or pink

too bad pic turns out a bit brown..actually bright pink specimen

[FuEl]

Hmm..think different species..mine the polyps dun stretch out that much....I have another bright green colony..but it keeps getting moved around by a resident rock-moving crab....

I hope I posted in the right forum since it turned out to be goniopora...

[alanseah]

i think it's a jewel

[FuEl]

not jewel..jewel the skeleton is dome shaped..this one it encrusts over the rock it grows......

[Dinosaur]

Damn .... its a new species

[DrJekyl_MrHyde]

look like white jewel to me ....but the skeleton does not look like jewel... so can someone ID it PLs ....

[Achilles Tang]

It looks like encrusting hydnophora to me but your photo isn't clear enough to ID properly.

Can you count the number of arms in each polyp? How long does each polyp extend to at the max?

[DrJekyl_MrHyde]

the polpy are only 1/2 cm long .......

[Tanzy]

It's an encrusting goniopora. Hydnophora will have little triangular domes or pyramids where the corallites meet, called hydnophores.