What is this acro? Corallite density is insane.

[encrustingacro]

The curse of coral morphology is that often you have to have a scanning electron microscope and J.E.N. Veron by your side to hope to identify a coral properly, and you will have to cut off a frag to do the examination.

I wonder if the seller can provide the name under which it was shipped? @ExtremeCorals (Nice looking stuff, as always!)

Many of Veron's concepts on coral classification are wrong, and judging by the CotW website, he often misidentifies them.

Or maybe...

acropora gemmifera - Google Search

I wouldn't recommend using a Google image search for reference images, as many of the photos are misidentified.

If anyone is into doing the ID stuff The Coral Finder is considered a very good guide.

Coral Finder 2022

The completely revised & up-to-date 5th edition of the book that took the mystery out of coral ID is now available. The Indo Pacific Coral Finder delivers easy genus level coral ID anywhere between the Red Sea and Easter Island. Over 1730 images & expanded genus coverage Updated to reflect...

byoguides.com

Coral finder is a good guide; however, it mostly only IDs down to the genus level. Indo-Pacific Corals by Joe Rowlett is a good guide too, although the taxonomy is somewhat outdated, being released in 2020.

 

[djf91]

All their stuff is HIGHLY saturated in post editing…
I’d be highly surprised if it actually looked that in person

Yep, probly still a very nice green humilis. I doubt it’ll keep that color though under windex lights.

 

[Kzang]

Case in point.
Look at how crazy the red and yellows are on this photo.

I only see yellow, green, and purple.

Where do you see red?

 

[GlassMunky]

I only see yellow, green, and purple.

Where do you see red?

on the rack behind the coral
and that yellow is fake. highly saturated.

 

[Kzang]

on the rack behind the coral
and that yellow is fake. highly saturated.

Ahh I thought you were talking about the hammer being red. Lol

 

[Velcro]

Honestly those are some of the most shameful photo edits I’ve ever seen.