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This will be a page to document the ID of Forestal (Dan).
This will be my own experience documenting a coral for ID, acro type. Coral used: original:



Polyp under 10x mag.

Frag before bleaching:

Fragment bleached:

Coral description: I think Caespitos, although this is a small frag, so after a lot of growth my look different.
Axial Corallites:

• Septae: 12
  
• Cycles of septa: 2, large primary and small secondary
  
• Septal height: non exert
  
• primary septae extend far into the corallite, secondary do not
  
• Paliform structures:
  
• axial corallite is 2.5mm outer and 1mm inner diameter

  Axial pic:
  
  

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  Radial corallites:
  

  • variable, rounded/appressed, some with round, some nariform openings
    
  • radials contribute a lot to the branch width
    
  • most radial corallites with diamter 2x3mm, inner diameter 1mm
    
  • septa in 2 cycles, with primary, extending 2/3 to center, secondary small and narrow
    
  • appear to have 3 synapticular rings (unable to geta good pic)
    
  Radial corallites:
  
  
  
  Growth Form:
  
  • caespitos
    
  • branches show some tertiaries
    
  • axials and radials contribute equally to branch width
    
  Coenosteum:
  
  • appears reticulate between the radials and simple spinnules on the radials
    
  pic of reticulate above and spinnules on radial below:
  
  Grouping:
  
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  Looking at Wallace's species Keys:
  1.branch formation: 0 around single axial corallite
  2.branching orders: 0 tertiary orders (altho small frag)
  3.colony outline: 0 determinate from focused origin
  4.Predominant outline: 6 corymbose (including caespitos)
  5.Branch diameter: 2 50/50 axial/radial dominated
  6.Coenosteum: 1 different on and between radials
  7.Radial coralite coenosteum: 3 calling open spinules
  8.Between radials coenosteum: 1 reticulate
  9.Spinule shape: 0 single pointed
  10.Radial corallite sizes: 0 1 size
  11.Radial corallite inner wall: 3 ? not developed
  12.Radial corallite shape: 6 calling rounded appressed
  13.Radial corallite openings: 1 oval to rounded
  14.Axial/radial ratio:1 many radials
  15.Axial coralite outer diameter: 2 small <3mm
  16.Radial corallites: 1 in comparison to axials, these are large
  17.Branch thickness: 1 medium thick to thick are ~10-12mm
  18.Branch taper: 1 conical is predominant, some terete
  19.Max branch length: unknown, too young
  20.Radial crowding: 1 some radials touch
  21.Axial corallite syn rings: 0 2 rings
  22.Skeletal porosity: 1 radial walls non porous (porous but seems dense)
  23.Radial cor syn rings: 1 3 rings
  

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