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Fire corals (Millepora) are a genus of colonial marine organisms that exhibit physical characteristics similar to that of coral. The name coral is somewhat misleading, as fire corals are not true corals but are instead more closely related to Hydra and other hydrozoans , making them hydrocorals.
Millepora platyphylla is a species of fire coral, a type of hydrocoral, in the family Milleporidae. [2] It is also known by the common names blade fire coral and plate fire coral . It forms a calcium carbonate skeleton and has toxic, defensive polyps that sting. [ 3 ]
Millepora complanata, commonly known as blade fire coral, is a species of fire coral in the family Milleporidae. It is found in shallow waters in the Caribbean Sea where it is a common species. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed its conservation status as being critically endangered.
Millepora alcicornis, or sea ginger, is a species of colonial fire coral with a calcareous skeleton. It is found on shallow water coral reefs in the tropical west Atlantic Ocean. It shows a variety of different morphologies depending on its location.
Millepora squarrosa is a species of fire coral that can be found in the Caribbean Sea as well as in the western Atlantic. They are very common on fringing reefs in patches. [ 2 ] They have a smooth surface covered in tiny pores from which polyps protrude.
"While the world above water has completely changed, the reefs look fairly healthy and comparable to pre-fire coral cover data," Orion McCarthy, a marine biologist at the Scripps Institution of ...
Millepora tenera has a wide range and is common over much of that range. It is subject to coral diseases and coral bleaching under adverse environmental conditions, and like other corals, is threatened by degradation of its coral reef habitat. However it is a fast-growing, rather weed-like species, and is one of the first species to recolonise ...
The Spirit of Norfolk vessel, which caught fire in Virginia in 2022, is reportedly getting a new life as an artificial reef off the coast of Florida. ... which caught fire in Virginia in 2022, is ...