New Acro, Needs ID

Got this Encrusting acro at the LFS today 30$. anyone know what it is?

 

Look like it could be an Echinata, the coloration and polyps look close but it's too small to make an good educated guess for me. If not that a Tortuosa perhaps.

 

Well the guy at the lfs said it encrusts and grows like crazy. Is an enchinata a type of acro?

 

It is an acropora as far as I can see, google echinata acropora. All acorpora encrust to some degree.

 

Take a look at this link, go down and look at the one called Rainbow Tortuosa Acropora. That one looks pretty darn close from what I can see.

http://www.aquacon.com/sps.html

 

It looks like a tortuosa to me.

 

A. tortuosa
And it will encrust first but is not an encrusting type. it will grow long thinner branches

 

Thanks everyone, after looking around some more, another name for it is miyagi tort. Just curious, whats so special about "tort" acro's?

 

ohh this tort is quite a beauty!!! it has some very nice colors.

But torts arent "special"... they are just another type of coral with a distinctive growth pattern. I guess you could almost call it similar to that of a staghorn

 

Well when it grows out more, im sure we could trade

It just seems like all the torts are more expensive, i was hoping to get an encrusting or tabling acro, but the colors on it were amazing so i had to have it.