Help with Coral types for posting needed

Hi all -
With the new coral boards I thought it would be great to have a sticky post called 'Which board do I post my coral question on?'

Coral classifications are certainly not my strong-suit so Steve started this list:

Soft corals

Leather corals
toadstool corals
Elephant ears
Mouse ear corals
Cabbage corals
Xenia
Anthellia
Zoanthids
Mushrooms
GSP
yellow polyps


LPS corals

Torch
Frogspawn
Elegance
Hammer
Candy Cane
Duncans
Brain corals
Wellso
Fungia
Plate corals
Chalice
Acans
Blasto's
Gonipora
Alveapora

SPS corals

Acropora
Montipora
Birdsnest

NPS


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Please add any common corals that may be missing here (Or correct as this was a 5am Steve post )
if you can and after some polish I will stick this to help others ... and me!
Thank you!

matt

 

pavona
dendrophyllia
scoly
Acan echinata
Cynarina
pagoda
Platygyra
Favia

 

That you sir. Don't forget to mention what type these corals belong too.

matt

 

all of them are lps except for the pavona which is SPS

 

SPS
Montipora Digitata
Pocillopora
Stylophora
Porites

LPS
Hydnophora
Glaxaea
Tubinaria (pagoda and yellow scroll)
Polyphyllia (slipper and tongue corals)
Mycedium
Cyphastrea
Leptoseris


Soft
Sympodium

 

I've seen Dendro's listed as NPS on a few sites, and Sympodium listed as LPS on multiples as well.

 

I believe a coral can be both Non-photosynthetic and a LPS.

For NPS, I would be looking more at

Chili corals
Some of the Gorgonians
Sea Squirts ( although I do not consider them a coral)
All the dendrophyllias

 

NPS:

Chili
Cauliflower
Carnation
Sun Coral
Sponges?

 

Thanks folks! I'll put a link to this soon.. if anyone else has some common ones not listed, please add. Thanks

matt

 

Not really. An Azoox coral/NPS while may fall into that made up (LPS) category because it's a "large polyp", but traditionally an LPS has always been photosynthetic.