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Pics of my new torch (Euphyllia glabrescens)

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Embowe

Here are a few pics of the new green torch (I think its Euphyllia glabrescens) that I bought out of the corner display tank at ILC...4 heads for a price I couldnt pass up..
TorchCoral009.jpg

TorchCoral006.jpg

TorchCoral004.jpg

TorchCoral003.jpg

TorchCoral001.jpg
 
E

Embowe

I thought the same thing...Im still trying to get a 100% ID on it...everything that I have seen points to it being braching frogspawn...and my clown is starting to take intrest in it:)
 
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Brian

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Doesn't look like a Torch...I'll second (or third) the frogspawn ID.

Very nice though!
 
MikeNapoli

MikeNapoli

A different type of frogspawn ... Grape Coral -- Euphyllia Cristata (maybe) in the Marine Inverts book by Ronald L. Shimek
 
Phyl

Phyl

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Hmm. Looks more like a torch to me except thicker. I have one that looks a lot like that. Why would you say frog?
 
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Brian

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My torch had longer, singular tentacles...almost looked like an anemone.
 
Phyl

Phyl

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Yeah, I'll give ya that. It does look like most of them are single headed frons... which is also unusual for Frogs. Pretty though!
 
Phyl

Phyl

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I could only find one web-based photo of that, Mike. It didn't look like the one pictured above. Any web photos?
 
E

Embowe

Whatever it is...my single clown seems to be taking a liking to it...has been hovering over it all day now and once and a while swims through it.... ;D
 
AqOb

AqOb

We get that in regularly and is usually sold under the name octopus coral. I have even seen it listed that way on availability reports direct from collection stations. Most of the time I just refer to it as Euphyllia so as to not mis name it.
 
MikeNapoli

MikeNapoli

Sorry I can't find an internet picture. All the ones i find are 100x60 resolution and way too small to even look at.

Will, look at page 175 in the Marine Inverts book. By Ronald L. Shimek, Ph.D.

I thought everyone had this book.
 
M

mladencovic

NapoliNewJersey said:
NapoliNewJersey said:
A different type of frogspawn ... Grape Coral -- Euphyllia Cristata (maybe) in the Marine Inverts book by Ronald L. Shimek
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Anyone?
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It is a Frogspawn. From the picture it is not clear if it is branching (paradivisa):
http://www2.aims.gov.au/coralsearch/html/401-500/Species pages/499.htm
or non-branching (divisa):
http://www2.aims.gov.au/coralsearch/html/101-200/Species pages/147.htm

Definitively not cristata :
http://www2.aims.gov.au/coralsearch/html/101-200/Species pages/146.htm
nor torch
glabrescens: http://www2.aims.gov.au/coralsearch/html/101-200/Species%
20pages/148.htm
or paraglabrescens : http://www2.aims.gov.au/coralsearch/html/801-900/Species pages/870.htm
 
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