Coral Photos and Identification
Polyps and Leather 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.)
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
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