Torch or hammer
- Thread starter Kensington Reefer
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Coral reefer
Past President
Aren’t only torches euphyllia now tho? Does that mean you are saying torch ?
Coral reefer
Past President
That’s what I thought
derek_SR
Supporting Member
I thought they were all euphyllia so I was just making a lame ass joke.
I will say though that my frogspawn gets really long tentacles like that during the peak of the day when he’s really happy so my official vote is frogspawn!
RandyC
Supporting Member
Technically not this easy any more. Hammers and frogspawn are now Fimbriaphyllia. Euphyllia are only torches, grape and bubble corals.
Resurrecting a subgenus to genus: molecular phylogeny of Euphyllia and Fimbriaphyllia (order Scleractinia; family Euphyllidae; clade V)
The corallum is crucial in building coral reefs and in diagnosing systematic relationships in the order Scleractinia. However, molecular phylogenetic analyses revealed a paraphyly in a majority of traditional families and genera among Scleractinia showing ...
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Chromis
Supporting Member
Because it resembles a frogspawn, but has very few branching tentacles like a torch, it has me guessing torchspawn (torch-frogspawn hybrid)
But it could be a cristata hybrid too. Would need better photos.
I asked Jake Adams if he could ID a similar coral I have in the pic below was and he told me about torchspawns. Wish he was still around to educate us reefers.
Hybrid Euphyllia Coral are (Slightly) More Common Than we Think | Reef Builders | The Reef and Saltwater Aquarium Blog
Torchspawn, Frammer, Hamspawn and many others are colloquial names for the many different ways that Euphyllia corals are known to hybridize and interbreed. Some of these are quite remarkable in their…
reefbuilders.com
But it could be a cristata hybrid too. Would need better photos.
I asked Jake Adams if he could ID a similar coral I have in the pic below was and he told me about torchspawns. Wish he was still around to educate us reefers.
Kensington Reefer
Supporting Member
Thank youBecause it resembles a frogspawn, but has very few branching tentacles like a torch, it has me guessing torchspawn (torch-frogspawn hybrid)
Hybrid Euphyllia Coral are (Slightly) More Common Than we Think | Reef Builders | The Reef and Saltwater Aquarium Blog
Torchspawn, Frammer, Hamspawn and many others are colloquial names for the many different ways that Euphyllia corals are known to hybridize and interbreed. Some of these are quite remarkable in their…reefbuilders.com
But it could be a cristata hybrid too. Would need better photos.
I asked Jake Adams if he could ID a similar coral I have in the pic below was and he told me about torchspawns. Wish he was still around to educate us reefers.
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