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Blade fire coral

Millepora complanata
Fa mo malQuai fa mal, ma i na ta fa nagin donn serius.
Privel per umans: DolurusQuai po far propi mal, ma i n'è bunamain mai grav.

Blade fire coral is a fire coral, a colony of tiny animals that builds a hard skeleton. It lives in shallow waters of the Caribbean Sea. Touching it with bare skin can cause a severe sting, so it is best to keep your distance.1

Viva en
Shallow waters of the Caribbean Sea1
Ocean Atlantic, Mar Caribic, Golf dal Mexico
Pagina iniziala
It grows in shallow water where the water moves strongly and is cloudy with sediment, and it tolerates silt. Its encrusting base spreads over the surface it grows on. Bare skin that touches the coral can be stung.1
Lunghezza
50 cm (1,6 ft)1
Sveltezza maximala
circa 0,01 km/h (0,01 mph)
Nudar, stima approximativa
Tge mangia el?
Its feeding polyps have hair-like stinging cells that detect zooplankton and trap it. Tiny crustaceans called copepods make up most of its diet. It also gets much of its carbon from algae living in its tissues, and it feeds mostly at night.1
Propi!Foto da Blade fire coral
Blade fire coral. Foto: Jay Brasher. CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist.

Co renconuscher el

  • Thin, upright plates or blades that can grow up to about 50 cm tall1
  • Pale brown or cream colour, with white tips on the blades1
  • Smooth blade surfaces with irregular outer edges and many stumpy bumps1
  • Hair-like polyps that poke out through tiny pores on the blade surface1

Forza dal tissi

Piztgadas

Il tissi vegn or tras in aguigl.

Tge fa ses tissi?

The stinging cells fire and inject venom into prey within three milliseconds. Contact with bare skin causes a severe stinging sensation.1

Quant privlus è el per umans?

Privel per umans: DolurusQuai po far propi mal, ma i n'è bunamain mai grav.

Contact with bare skin can cause a severe stinging sensation.1

Sch'el piztga

  • Va or da l'aua e prenda davent las tentaclas (cun manetschas u cun in tschop).
  • Tar medusas cubicas tropicalas: versa aschieu sin las piztgadas durant almain 30 secundas, clama agid e sajas pront da far ina reanimaziun. Tar galeras portugaisas e las bleras autras: lava cun aua da mar, lura cun aua chauda cunter las dolurs.

Clama adina l'emprim tes numer d'urgenza (112, 000, 911). Quai è in cussegl general d'emprim agid, betg in cussegl medicinal. Basa da l'emprim agid

Resta en segirezza

  • Na tutga, na piglia e na tizza mai in animal selvadi, gnanc in pitschen, ed era sch'el para da durmir u d'esser mort.
  • Dà spazi a l'animal. Sche ti scuntras in, resta calm, va plaun enavos e lascha ir el per sia via.
  • Sch'in tal animal ta piztga: resta calm, na ta mova betg, clama tes numer d'urgenza (112, 000, 911) u va spert en in ospital. Ta regorda co ch'el veseva or, ina foto gida.

El n'ha betg quai sin tai. El dovra ses tissi per pigliar nutriment u per sa defender, e sa zuppa bler pli gugent. Dapli davart la segirezza

Quant grond è el?

Quant lung è el?

Blade fire coral circa 50 cm lung (1,6 ft)In giat da chasa circa 50 cm (1,6 ft)In chaun circa 1 m (3,3 ft)
uschè lung sco 3 bananas ina suenter l'autrauschè lung sco 16 bluccs da construcziun in suenter l'auterpli plaun ch'ina lindorna da curtin

Quant grond è Blade fire coral cumpareglià cun TAI?

Mo matematica en tes navigatur. Nagut na vegn memorisà u tramess.

Quant svelt è el?

bun da savair

Fatgs

1

Its stinging cells can fire and inject venom into prey in just three milliseconds.1

2

Blade fire coral is one of the first coral species to recolonise damaged reefs.1

3

Broken pieces of its blades can reattach to the seabed and survive.1

4

In a 1998 Caribbean bleaching event, many colonies died, but many blade fire corals recovered and regained their colour within a few months.1

5

Its tissues contain tiny algae called zooxanthellane, which provide much of the carbon the coral needs.1

6

It feeds during both day and night but mostly at night.1

Per experts da tissi

Num scientific
Millepora complanata
Gruppa
Medusas ed autras creaturas da mar che piztgan
Famiglia
Milleporidae2
Urden
Anthoathecata
Continents
Ocean Atlantic, Mar Caribic, Golf dal Mexico, Ils oceans
Poppins
Sexual reproduction involves a stage where the coral releases free-floating medusae, and broken pieces of blade can reattach to the reef and grow new colonies.1
Co ch'i va ad el en la natira
Critically endangered (IUCN)1
Privel per umans
2 / 5: Dolurus3

Da nua che vegnan ils fatgs

  1. Millepora complanata (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Millepora complanata (iNaturalist): nums e classificaziun.
  3. Venom Wiki: il stgalim da privel, la grondezza tipica e la stima da la sveltezza èn noss agens. Guarda co che nus als calculain: Co che nus valitain il privel.

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