ID Help Please

[ScottB]

I picked up this colony yesterday, even though the vendor thought was a pearl berry (NOT!). Can someone help me figure it out? It looks sorta like a pink/purple frogskin or some such:

 

[Frick]

That is why i hate show names, too many people try to pull off fakes and hope people will pay a higher price because they put a fake name on it. Don't follow suit and go and call it frogskin. ORA coral come from ORA. Find out the species, and if you want to name it and start some lineage do it after you know its potential (growth, color, structure, etc) My two cent.

To guess a species i would say, Acropora anthocercis http://coral.aims.gov.au/speciesPages/species_metadata/0008/view#

 

[ScottB]

I appreciate the feedback. I have no interest in starting any lineage, nor am I generally educated in coral taxonomy. I just wanted to be able to answer the question, when my friends say "What is the pink/purple one?"

The only reason I used frogskin is that I saw a picture of a coral that looked like it had a similiar shape and style. As it had the frogskin moniker and I am too uneducated to know the difference, I went with it.