Reef Animals
		Where Acropora palmata is subject to very low current intensity, poorly circulating water, and consequent higher salinities and temperature, it tends to become exceedingly digitate. Biologists have designated this a separate species, Acropora prolifera, but this photograph shows the tissue is continuous with normal Acropora palmata.

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