[Reefer769]

can anyone give me some information or some pics on the "Snow White Tip Acropora"? thanks its for a biology project and i cant seem to find any pics... unless the name is wrong, heres one pic of how it looks like, i found it off of frags.org

[Ninong]

Originally Posted by Reefer769

can anyone give me some information or some pics on the "Snow White Tip Acropora"? thanks its for a biology project and i cant seem to find any pics... unless the name is wrong, heres one pic of how it looks like, i found it off of frags.org

Of course the name is wrong. I hope that didn't come from your biology teacher? There are 368 different species of Acropora according to Veron, 1986, or only 114 different species according to Wallace, 1999, or 182 different species according to Veron, 2000, (he revised the taxonomy), and none of them is called Acropora snow white.

The reason white growing tips are common is because the corallites are growing rapidly and lack zooxanthellae.

Here is a little secret link that gives you access to the same database as the Corals of the World companion CD: http://whelk.aims.gov.au/coralsearch/coralsearch.php Choose Acroporidae for Family and Acropora for genus and then select whatever else you know about the species you are looking for before hitting the search button. Click Indo-Pacific because I believe there are only three species of Acropora in the Atlantic/Caribbean.

[Reefer769]

haha cool thanks

[Reefer769]

do you have any idea what the name of the SPS i showed a pic of??

[Ninong]

Originally Posted by Reefer769

do you have any idea what the name of the SPS i showed a pic of??

No, because there are several species that look just like that. I am fairly confident that the genus is Acropora, however.

[Reefer769]

its fine, i did some searching on the site you gave me and i just switched over to the "purple monster" its such a cool sps, thanks for the site. well im off to do my research.