Halomitra meierae??/herpetoglossa simplex??

[BCOrchidGuy]

I think that's what I've got here, what do you think?
http://www.canreef.com/photopost/sho....php?photo=377
I cant find a pic of Herpetoglossa so if anyone has a pic in a book and can look it up I'd be very grateful.

Doug

[props]

ohhhh wt
how many mouths does it have?

[BCOrchidGuy]

all the white areas are mouths.. (IE to many for me to count on my fingers and toes)

Doug

[BCOrchidGuy]

Bump, any thoughts?

Doug

[martym]

Doug, My book of corals states " subgenus of fungia which would then also include the questionable heretoglossa herein known as Fungia Simplex". Hope this helps, the book is by Eric Borneman

[EmilyB]

You may want to remove that pic because of copyright protection marty.

[martym]

Thanks Emily,
It looks like a tongue

[BCOrchidGuy]

Marty, I looked at all the fungia's and found most of them only had one mouth, it's a difficult thing to ID. I've seen the Halomitra as well as fungia's that look like the tongue. This has numerous mouths and it's growing well.

Doug

[martym]

quoting from my book "all Fungia have one central mouth" But the Genus Halomitra have secondary mouths surrounding a central mouth. Common species H. clavator and H. pileus. If you would like more info just let me know.

[BCOrchidGuy]

I found the H. clavator and pileus a while ago, that's where I got the H. meierae, just wanted to try to get a Definate, no question about it ID.

Doug