Help Me ID this Coral?

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Tremelle

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I have an unknown to me coral growing on the rock of a couple of leathers I have. Since I am only into leathers and mushrooms I have no idea what coral it is. I have 3 patches of it growing. Does anyone have any idea what it is?

Here is the pic.
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Looks like porites to me. Nice coral to have and not considered aggressive.

http://www.hawaii.edu/HIMB/Gallery/Porites.jpg
 
I gotta go with porites, too. I've got a whole rock covered with the stuff that started from a quarter-sized patch on a piece of liverock from my lfs. BTW, that link wouldn't work until I dropped the final / -

http://www.hawaii.edu/HIMB/Gallery/Porites.jpg

Here's a link to an alveopora picture for comparison:

http://www.melevsreef.com/pics/0804/alveopora_081804.jpg

Ok, that's not a picture of branching alveopora but I couldn't resist using Marc's picture. Dean, do you have any better pictures we could use to compare? And Tremelle, if you have a clearer picture so we can count the fringes on a polyp, it would make identification easier.

[Hey Marc, two pictures from Melevs Reef were in the top 10 Google image search results for "alveopora"; you're famous!]
 
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