Saltwater retailer Kraken Corals have sold an unusual coral it believes to be a bounced Button Scoly. Native to Western Australia, Button Scolys are still exported as Scolymia australis, despite being closer to the officially named Micromussa pacifica in 2016.…
We’ve Been Hunting a ‘Tonga-Mussa’ for Over Five Years!
Tonga-Mussa is a name we came up with sometime before 2015 to describe a unique LPS coral that we’ve only seen imported from Tonga. At first glance this coral looks like a slight variation of the beloved Homophyllia bowerbanki from…
Micromussa pacifica finally gives Indonesian ‘Acan Maxima’ a real name
Micromussa pacifica is a name that we’ve all been waiting for to identify an undescribed coral for nearly a decade. Ever since the small ‘Indonesian Scolymia’ popped up on the radar of reefers, it’s gone by many names but we…
