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While most fire corals are yellow or orange, they can also be found in shades of brown, green, and even blue, providing a vibrant display underwater. [1] Fire coral has several common growth forms; these include branching, plate, and encrusting. Branching fire coral adopts a calcareous structure which branches off into rounded, finger-like tips.
Like other fire corals, Millepora tenera can cause painful rashes when touched by bare skin. Extracts of this coral contain neurotoxins, and can cause convulsions, respiratory failure and death in mice. [3] The extract causes hemolysis, contains a dermonecrotic factor and has antigenic properties.
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.
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.
When humans come in contact with it, burning and rashes can occur. The woman in the video is Iowa resident Wendy Prusha, who contracted the rash after trying to take wild parsnip out of her garden ...
Millepora dichotoma, the net fire coral, is a species of hydrozoan, consisting of a colony of polyps with a calcareous skeleton. Description
Coral dermatitis is a cutaneous condition caused by injury from the exoskeleton of certain corals. [1]: 430 ...