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Aqua Splendor

I'm struggling a lot to ID correctly my corals, internet is a giants mess when it comes to ID ocean life.
I'm curious if you have some website you like to go to understand the scientific name and correct species, Not from a trade/seller point of view but scientific point of view.

 

For example I use:

http://www.coralsoftheworld.org/species_factsheets/

But it doesn't contain much unfortunately, 

I'm looking website with picture to easily ID visually

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mitten_reef
47 minutes ago, Aqua Splendor said:

I'm struggling a lot to ID correctly my corals, internet is a giants mess when it comes to ID ocean life.
I'm curious if you have some website you like to go to understand the scientific name and correct species, Not from a trade/seller point of view but scientific point of view.

 

For example I use:

http://www.coralsoftheworld.org/species_factsheets/

But it doesn't contain much unfortunately, 

I'm looking website with picture to easily ID visually

I like that website/database a lot actually

 

perhaps you didn’t dig deep enough into the species info? Here’s a link to their reference images of acropora cerealis down to skeletal structure

http://www.coralsoftheworld.org/species_factsheets/species_factsheet_images/acropora-cerealis/


So if you’re looking for picture ID, you need to have a few candidates for species names to be able to look up what their images might look like, hmm, I can see why that could make it tricky. 
 

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Aqua Splendor

Yeah it's just that website is a bit empty, but it's the kind of stuff I like about it, I just want a MUCH bigger database,

Acropora and other SPS are easy

but when it comes to NPS/Soft coral, it start to get tricky 😕

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