Wild aussie piece id please

[burt]

Picked this the other day, looking for an id, pls

 

[Sisterlimonpot]

try the sps identification forum

 

[Blindside]

lokani?

 

[RL321]

Aussie echinata

 

[chadfarmer]

nice

 

[Moser]

Lovely piece, Burt!.
Where did you pick that up from?

Mo

 

[Oceanman79]

agree with a couple of the others... maybe lokani? echinata was my first gut feeling. That thing looks to be the size of a dinner plate...

 

[samuelkl]

Could be a multiacuta

 

[allsps40]

looks like aussi echinata

 

[smokenax]

Jacquilinae

 

[gromero]

Wow stunning acro :crazy1:

 

[Tony B (UK)]

How much was it? What shop?

 

[Rogger Castells]

I have two in my tank, I always thought it was a A. Jacquelineae, IMO It is a slow grower but does pretty good in captivity.

 

[KROS]

Its from me Tony, i'll leave it up to burt if he wants to discuss pricing

 

[Reefer1225]

+1 enchinata

 

[dvanacker]

definitely not echinata...the growth form is all wrong. This coral tables and echinata is a bottlebrush. Also the coralite tips are too rounded.

Nice piece ...good luck with it.

 

[Tony B (UK)]

Its from me Tony, i'll leave it up to burt if he wants to discuss pricing

Ok thanks Ush, when I was in De-Jong they had a few large acropora for sale, very nice piece.

I agree with Darryl it's not an echinata, as he has already said the formation does not match echinata. It is very very sexy though, as nice or nicer than an echinata imho.

Tony

 

[burt]

thanks everyone, my first thought was echinata, i have two aussie echinatas and they do look almost identical apart from this has hairy polyps, and never seen a tabling form, it does resemble lokani in growth form, although i haven't seen with such thin branches, also Jacquelineae is the most likely but both of these corals aren't listed as growing in aussie waters.
anyway whatever it is i'm happy with it, it measures over 12" across

 

[acroholicreefer]

+1 to the acropora jacquelineae. Nice find and good luck with the acro.

 

[samuelkl]

Leading edges don't look like jacquelineae, more rounded here and you see those nodules, which made me go with multiacuta. I have a piece with similar growth form