Coral Photos and Identification




Trachyphyllia and Pagoda Polyps and Leather



Welcome to our Coral Photo and Identification gallery.
These are pictures we took of our products.

(Please do not view this as an open invitation to
send us your coral photos for indentification.)


Our coral photo pages are designed to serve two
purposes ... to help you identify corals and
to give you an idea of the types of corals
you may order from us.

Most corals can only be safely identified to species
by microscopic examination of the skeleton.
With some of the large polyp stonys, it is easier
to be certain of a species; but, in many cases what
appears to be one species is really four different
types of corals; and, conversely, what looks like
four different types of corals, may indeed be the
same species. So here we make identification
generally only to the genus level, since, in reality,
that is all that can be honestly claimed.

Some of the more rare types of coral, such
as blastomussa and montipora can usually be
obtained when a box of corals is ordered,
however, the quantity per order is limited.

Please refer to our Corals Information page
to learn more about how to acquire many of
of species of corals shown here.

To learn how to identify some of these corals,
click on the name under the photo of the
coral "family group" to see a selection of
photos from that group of corals.




Hard Corals
Tongue Coral (Polyphyllia)
Soft Corals
Xenia / Anthellia
Blastomussa
Red Blastomussa
Assorted Hard Corals Assorted Soft Corals Blastomussa



Brain Corals
Platygyra



Bubble Corals



Carnation Soft Coral
Red Carnation
Soft Coral
Brain Corals
Favia, Favites, Trachyphyllia
Bubble Corals Carnation Corals



Caulastrea
Caulastrea



Cynarina
Cynarina ("Modern")



Euphyllia
Hammer Coral
Caulastrea Cynarina Euphyllia
Hammer, Torch, Frogspawn



Finger Leathers



Elegance / Fox
Fox (Nemenzophyllia)



Lemnalia
Finger Leathers Elegance and Fox Corals Lemnalia Soft Coral



Montipora



Non-Acro SPS
Seriatopora ("Bird's Nest")



Other Leathers
Flower Leather
Montipora Non-Acropora SPS Assorted Leathers
Ridge, Flower, etc.



Pagoda Coral



Plate Coral



Sarcophyton
Pagoda / Turbinaria Plate Corals Sarcophyton
Leathers






Non-Stony
Distichopora



Acropora
Purple Acropora
Non-Stony
Hard Corals

Heliopora, Distichopora,
Tubastrea (Sun Polyps)
Acropora







To Our Fiji Acropora Photo Page
Fiji Acropora Photo Page






Red Mushrooms with Euphyllia




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