Identification

[G.Alexander]

While crawling the web I have seen some pictures from the well know US A.tortuosa. Some of the pictures, not sure if they where identified correct looked like the coral in the attached pictures. Anybody a idea which kind it really is ? Until now my guess was A.gomezi.





Thanks, G.Alexander

[invincible569]

Alexander,

I would have to go with A. Exquisita. The reason is because of the smaller coralites being scaly while the longer ones end with a more tubular shape. The tubular coralites of a Gomezi are thin compared to the Exquisita. On your pic, they look rather larger but it leads me to think that all of the new round coralites are signs of new growth from its new environment, your AQ. The ends of each stem also has the flaring growth like the Exquisita.

http://whelk.aims.gov.au/coralsearch...0pages/902.htm

[G.Alexander]

Indeed Edward it looks very similar. Thanks for your help.

G.Alexander