Reference site for identifying different types of Acropora?

[snowhite]

Mille, Tenuis, etc? Been looking but not finding any collected resource the help educate myself on identifying the different types. (not specific named corals). Everything I've found has either been way to vague, or so scientifically indepth that it's exhausting.

 

[kenchilada]

Your best bet is a dessert menu, so you can identify your Strawberry Shortcake Microclados and your Blueberry Donut Tenius.

 

[CCauthers]

In all honesty, there are some very knowledgeable people on here, off of the top of my head @C. Eymann is very good and @Pedoconfuego is as well, listen to them and you'll start to be able to ball park it, I like coralsoftheworld.org to fine tune things.

 

[Thales]

Mille, Tenuis, etc? Been looking but not finding any collected resource the help educate myself on identifying the different types. (not specific named corals). Everything I've found has either been way to vague, or so scientifically indepth that it's exhausting.

Yep, taxonomy isn't easy, especially with animals as plastic as Acros

 

[Graffiti Spot]

Www.Coralsoftheworld.org

 

[stanlalee]

Live aquaria usually list the species of acropora in the divers den sps section and they are wild colonies. You could study features there. For 10 years now there are only two acropora I can positively ID with certainty: millipora and granulosa. These designer names are out of hand IMO.

 

[snowhite]

Ya, I'm not as concerned about specific fashion names, but I've been trying to nail down the different broad types like Milli, Tenuis, etc, which set me off down the path of this thread.

 

[DothanReefer]

Would to know if you ever found a resource for this OP?