Coral Identification Photos - Marine Aquarium Reference

Coral Photos and Identification

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

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.

Trachyphyllia and Pagoda

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.

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

Tongue Coral (Polyphyllia)	Xenia - Anthellia	Red Blastomussa
Assorted Hard Corals	Assorted Soft Corals	Blastomussa
Platygyra		Red Carnation Soft Coral
Brain Corals Favia, Favites, Trachyphyllia	Bubble Corals	Carnation Corals
Caulastrea	Cynarina ("Modern")	Hammer Coral
Caulastrea	Cynarina	Euphyllia Hammer, Torch, Frogspawn
	Fox (Nemenzophyllia)
Finger Leathers	Elegance and Fox Corals	Lemnalia Soft Coral
	Seriatopora ("Bird's Nest")	Flower Leather
Montipora	Non-Acropora SPS	Assorted Leathers Ridge, Flower, etc.

Pagoda - Turbinaria	Plate Corals	Sarcophyton Leathers