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This is my attempt to make a search for a coral's ID just a bit easier by trying to at least get a start within a genus, once you have an idea of what group it may be within, you can then search that genus for possible specific species at the below link.

CORAL IDENTIFICATION  CD


If you are going to have any chance at correctly identifying a coral, you will most likely have to have a skeletal sample of the coral in question. You will also need to become familiar with the termonology used to describe indentifying features. The following links go into such details and will be very helpfull to you if you read these articles.      Taxonomy of Stony Corals        Taxonomy of Stony Corals Part 2        Taxonomy of  Corals Part 3
                                                                                                                                                       ( soft corals, zooanthids)


LITHOPHYLLON
     

LOBOPHYLLIA
     

MADRACIS
     

MANICINA


MEANDRINA
                                                                

MERULINA
       

MICROMUSSA
                                   

MONTASTREA
      

MONTIGYRA


MONTIPORA
As with the Acropora species, it is all but impossible to ID this genus by photos alone, within just four species shown below, there is great variations, as well as those same variations being possible within a single species as well.
       

MOSELEYA


MUSSA


MUSSISMILLIA
                                   

MYCEDIUM
       

MYCETOPHYLLIA
       

NEMENZOPHYLLIA
                                 

OCULINA
      

OULASTREA


OULOPHYLLIA
       

OXYPORA
       

PACHYSERIS
       

PALAUASTREA
                                                               

PARACLAVARINA
                                                              
PARASIMPLASTREA
                                                               

PAVONA
       
       

PECTINIA
       

PHYSOGYRA
       

PLATYGYRA
       

PLEROGYRA
       

PLESIASTREA
                                                              

POCILLOPORA
      

PODABACIA
       

POLYPHYLLIA
                                                              

PORITES
       

PORITIPORA


PSAMMOCORA
       

PSEUDOSIDERASTREA
                                                               

SANDALOLITHA
       

SCAPOPHYLLIA
                                   

SCHIZOCULINA
                                                                

SCOLYMIA
       

SERIATOPORA
       

SIDERASTREA
                                   

SIMPLASTREA
                                                              

SOLENASTREA
                                                              

STEPHANOCOENIA


STYLARAEA
                                                              

STYLOCOENIELLA
       

STYLOPHORA
      

SYMPHYLLIA
       

TRACHYPHYLLIA
                                     

TURBINARIA
       

ZOOPILUS
                                 


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