[Coral-List] Is this A. prolifera?

[Steve Vollmer]

Ken - you are right on. That's a small, growing *Acropora palmata* colony
not *A. prolifera*.

Cheers, Steve

On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Belize TREC <trec at hotmail.com> wrote:

>  Does anyone else think there is something the matter with this picture?
> See the original article at Science Friday.
> http://sciencefriday.com/blogs/09/22/2014/picture-of-the-week-fused-staghorn-coral.html?series=31#path/blogs/09/22/2014/picture-of-the-week-fused-staghorn-coral.html?series=31
> Ken Mattes, www.BelizeMarineTREC.com
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