If that is a Hollywood Stunner what is this?

[Gtownguy487]

If this is a Hollywood Stunner..

http://i931.photobucket.com/albums/ad160/partycitybennett/Hollywoodd.jpghttp://i931.photobucket.com/albums/ad160/partycitybennett/holly2.jpg
Then what is this?
http://i931.photobucket.com/albums/ad160/partycitybennett/green-eyed-chalice-hlly12.jpghttp://i931.photobucket.com/albums/ad160/partycitybennett/green-eyed-chalice-hlly1.jpghttp://i931.photobucket.com/albums/ad160/partycitybennett/green-eyed-chalice-hlly.jpg

[IamTomm]

Looks to be the same thing.

[secrest]

Looks like the same thing to me, just under different lighting.

[Gtownguy487]

Same lighting, the first one is thing plating type, the second one is a more fleshy thing that forms over rocks...

[IamTomm]

Its just a different growth pattern. Is it from the same colony or 2 different colonies?

[Gtownguy487]

2 different their bodies look nothing the same

[correctamundo]

Ummm...is it just me but isn't the upper left picture not a chalice (Echinophyllia) at all, but an echinopora....

The bottom two are chalices (Echinophyllia).

[SDguy]

The coralite structure is totally different between the two.

[RokleM]

[moved]...

[Gtownguy487]

Yes 100% different.... Anyone know the exact names of these corals?

[returnofsid]

Ummm...is it just me but isn't the upper left picture not a chalice (Echinophyllia) at all, but an echinopora....

The bottom two are chalices (Echinophyllia).


"Chalice" doesn't only mean Echinophyllia. "Chalice" is a generic term that refers to may different corals, including Echinopora. In fact, the ORA Sprung's Stunner Chalice is an Echinopora, probably E. lamellosa. I believe the Hollywood Stunner Chalice is also an Echinopora.

[Gtownguy487]

So top is a Echinopora ?
and bottom is a Echinophyllia ?

Both are Hollywood Stunners perhaps? The one thats plating out I know is but the other?

[Gtownguy487]

bump