Acropora species ID

[cjtabares]

I was looking for some help identifying this acro, I always struggle with IDing corals.

 

[JonoH]

Looks like either an Echinata or Lokani

 

[cjtabares]

Looks like either an Echinata or Lokani

Thank you. I was looking at the Echinata, and this formation looked slightly different, not saying it is not that, like I said, I am really bad at this type of thing.

Edit: to clarify, I was looking at this before I made the post.

 

[billyocean]

Flow can have an impact on growth formation as well. A lot of factors

 

[JonoH]

Flow can have an impact on growth formation as well. A lot of factors

And fragging does also - A lot of colony images on-line have been fragged a heap!

 

[Battlecorals]

I was looking for some help identifying this acro, I always struggle with IDing corals.

My best guess I’d say Turoki

 

[386reeftrader]

Agreed, A. Turaki or A. Navini

 

[cjtabares]

Thanks everyone. I saw it at a lfs for $40, seemed like a good deal, and I wanted a smooth skin acro, so I picked it up. I am always interested in species, just wish I had the mind to remember the names, I am awful at names.

 

[iani]

Definitely not a lokani as suggested above. It does look a lot like the Hawkins echinata in form which is a turaki I believe.

 

[Danjoethepirate]

I have a Hawkins that looks exactly the same.

Top left

 

[eye_dr_reef]

https://www.coralsoftheworld.org/media/images/0714_C01_01.jpg

Probably A. turaki

Characters: Colonies are subarborescent with bottlebrush branches with upright main branches form clumps. Axial, incipient axial and radial corallites all intergrade. Axial corallites are long and tubular while the smallest radial corallites are pocket-like. All corallites have thick walls with round openings.

Similar Species: Acropora longicyathus, which has shorter axial corallites and is therefore less bottlebrush-like. See also A. echinata, which has finer corallites.