I.D Please

[Bizzle Wizzle]

I know the granulosa but can you help with the rest please?

Coral 1,3,4 have bright blue polyps :thumbsup:


http://s1187.photobucket.com/albums/z391/Thebizzlewizzle/?action=view&current=NewSPS.jpg

 

[klepto]

Some closer images would be helpful. I would take a stab on a few, but without being able to see any detail on the corallites, it would be a shot in the dark.

 

[Bizzle Wizzle]

Here are some better pictures, HTH

Thanks in advance......

 

[Bizzle Wizzle]

Picture one looks to me like a robusta or abrolhoensis and pic four a divaricata and pic two some sort of stylo?

 

[Bizzle Wizzle]

Anybody?

 

[klepto]

I'm not sure on #1. But I doubt it is either of the two species you listed. The branching just isn't thick enough in my opinion.

Yes, #2 is definitely Stylopora. Possibly S. pistillata

http://coral.aims.gov.au/speciesPages/species_metadata/0345/view#

I agree with you also on #4 being Acropora divaricata

http://coral.aims.gov.au/speciesPages/species_metadata/0024/view#

It seems like you are on the right track for sure!


I think #3 looks very similar to Acropora samoensis. The overall corallite/branching morphology and dome shaped axial corallites lead me to say this.

http://coral.aims.gov.au/speciesPages/species_metadata/0060/view#

Judging only from the shape of the axial corallites of the last one, I'm leaning towards A. austera. That isn't much more than a guess though.
http://coral.aims.gov.au/speciesPages/species_metadata/0060/view#

 

[NVfishman]

1 a. aspera
2 stylo
3a. plucha
4 a. divicata
5 a. tenius

 

[Bizzle Wizzle]

1 a. aspera
2 stylo
3a. plucha
4 a. divicata
5 a. tenius

All these are on the list from the supplier so thanks for the I'D.

Is the last one definatly a tenius?

 

[klepto]

1 a. aspera
3a. plucha

I agree with you that the first looks A. aspera like.
http://coral.aims.gov.au/speciesPages/species_metadata/0009/view

I doubt that the third is A. pulchra though. The corallites look far too thick and the growth on the unknown coral looks more digitate than arborescent to me.

Also, I'm not seeing anything resembling a rosette on the last one and the axial corallites don't line up with the "long and tubular" description that A. tenius carries.
http://coral.aims.gov.au/speciesPages/species_metadata/0074/view

I wouldn't put much faith in the suppliers list. Its rare that they will be fully accurate.