SPS ID help please

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Can you help me identify this specimen? I realize it is from a sponsor but the photo was sent to me by mistake, and I'd just like to ID this beautiful coral.

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It's acropora. What the particular type of acro, I'm not sure.
 
My first guess was acropora austera but the branches seem a little thicker. Look up WWC Yellow Tips or Polletti Yellow Tips.
 
I think I have arrived at a decision based on BigJims recommendations. Not right on but very very close. I will update when I have the specimen on hand to examine.
 
Yeah I was daydreaming of the most intriguing possibilities and found Crown Jewels Acro (tortuosa-gomezi hybrid) and Paletta Tricolor...this being because the polyps are green and the base may have some red(?) The Yellow Tips are close but the polyps are purple. Of course, with our modern day myriad of lighting who knows anymore!

Anyway, I'm pretty excited regardless, very nice looking coral.
 
I'm leaning heavily on one of Mike P's corals in my observations thus far
 

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