Acan identification

[Layll318]

Got this cool looking acan at a swap meet. Any ideas what kind it is?

Thanks

Scott

 

[chilli_reef]

Acan enchinata.
Hard to be sure though with that super saturated blue pic..,

 

[Tweaked]

Need a better pic. Thinking chalice due to the space between mouths.

 

[Reef Bass]

I am not seeing the usual obvious visual separation of polyps that I would expect with A. lordhowensis. A. echinata would be my next guess.

 

[organism]

I'm going to break and say it's an Acan lord in an awful picture.

 

[Scorpius]

I'm going to break and say it's an Acan lord in an awful picture.

I concur.

 

[Reef Bass]

Ah, maybe you mean a Micromussa lordhowensis? Acan lords have been reclassified:

Acanthastrea lordhowensis now Micromussa lordhowensis

 

[Tweaked]

Correct, if it is indeed a m. lordhowensis. Still on the fence and hoping for better pic under whites.

 

[Ohioreef1700]

Looks like a chalice

 

[organism]

Looking at it again it's definitely a lord, just the picture is upside down.

 

[organism]

Ah, maybe you mean a Micromussa lordhowensis? Acan lords have been reclassified:

Acanthastrea lordhowensis now Micromussa lordhowensis

I'm aware, I still call meat corals scoly's too instead of Australomussa, to each their own.