Please help me ID this

westreef

Lost as usual
Just got it from LFS. This coral has creamy body and has blue tips. Appreciate your help.


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The scale shape of the coralites, (and more importantly the tips) would suggest two species of acropora. Both are very similar. IMO I think you have either A. convexa, or A. pulchra. Here are pics of both so you can do a comparison to your specimen. Both images from Vernon.
First A. convexa
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Next A. pulchra
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Which is the closest to your specimen?
Hope this helps.
 
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The scale shape of the coralites, (and more importantly the tips)

I feel I should elaborate from my previous post. The tips ( axial coralites) help to rule out both A. millepora and A.prostrata ( both corals also have scale like radial coralites as well) but have rounded axial coralites, where in both A. convexa and A. pulchra they are more square (like your specimen.)
 
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Thanks folks. But mine is a little bit fatter, not as elongated. And also, the tips have bright blue color. The picture I posted is not showing the colors well.
 
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