On a recent tour of theDallas World Aquarium, we had to opportunity to see a very unusual colony ofMycedium, together with two other recognizable species in the genus. All three colonies of these chalice corals were imported asMycediumcorals, with one colony looking like a perfectMycedium elephantotus, and the other colony being a good card-carrying member of themycedium robokakicomplex
The third colony ofMycedium上图与棕色组织，大型粉红色的口腔盘和浅红色边缘不同，这与我们以前见过的任何东西都不一样。奇数球之间的对比Mycediumis even more pronounced when all three colonies are brought together to contrast their corallite size, shape, features, and the general texture of each beautiful coral.
There is a point whereMycedium和果皮become increasingly similar to each other, we don’t know where that point is, butflattened colonies of果皮当然确实有很多相似之处Mycedium. The only potential way to tell one from the other is to watch for the extension of sweeper tentacles at night which we believe to be a more frequent trait in果皮珊瑚，众所周知会在晚上散发刺痛的细胞烟火。
Despite the extreme flatness of the unusual pink eyed chalice, our running theory is that this particular coral is indeed aMycedium具有独特的特征，但也被收集在一个真正平静的水流和中等照明区域中，使骨骼特征更容易将其钉在其所属的属中。这些巨大的息肉的众多无法识别或以其他方式无法识别的“物种”Mycedium和flattened果皮珊瑚,ere’s a handful of new species here just itching to be giving a close look by coral taxonomists, and several probably new species waiting to be formally described.
