Some help with SPS id (monti type)

[dhoch]

What I would like to know is the name of the following coral...

Thanks:

 

[Gargausius]

Unfortunately it's too difficult to give you an accurate scientific name for this Montipora. There are actually a few different species that are encrusting and they look very similar to each other. I'd be happy with it and know it's healthy.

 

[Alexj716]

yeah, I don't know either. It looks great tho

 

[Gargausius]

Unless it's a small frag of a branching form of Montipora, now that I look closer. If it is it's most likely Montipora digitata.

The only way to get a definite answer would be to frag a piece and bleach it. Then send it to a lab to someone who can identify it with a microscope, Relatively positive ID of corals is done by their sclerites.

 

[trippyl]

very pretty frag!

 

[dhoch]

It's definitly not a digi... I thought it was probably a hispidia, but was looking for some confirmation of that...

Dave