Hammer Coral (Euphyllia ancora)
Distinguishing features:
Torch Coral (Euphyllia glabrescens)
Distinguishing features:
Frogspawn Coral - Euphyllia divisa
Distinguishing features:
Distinguishing features:
- Crescent shaped
- Polyps normally grow tightly bunched with shorter tentacles when compared to the torch and frogspawn
- Occasionally will grow multi-headed tentacles
Torch Coral (Euphyllia glabrescens)
Distinguishing features:
- Tentacles grow looser when compared to the hammer coral
- Usually longer in length with the occasional multiple heads throughout the colony
- Sometimes weakly crescent shaped but normally not as much as the hammer coral
Frogspawn Coral - Euphyllia divisa
Distinguishing features:
- Tentacles grow in blobby mass like frog eggs
- Multiple branching tentacles all over the colony
- Grows similarly like the torch coral except for the predominant multi-heads
