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Branching fire coral

Millepora alcicornis

Davart il num: Millepora means 'thousand-pored' and alcicornis means 'elk-horned', although the name does not match its appearance.1

Fa mo malQuai fa mal, ma i na ta fa nagin donn serius.

Medusas ed autras creaturas da mar che piztgan

PiztgadasMangia: Charn

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

Branching fire coral is not a true coral, even though it looks like one. It is a relative of jellyfish that lives on shallow tropical reefs in the western Atlantic and can sting people who touch it. It is an important part of the reef community.1

Viva en

Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, Florida, Cape Verde Islands, Central and South America to Brazil, Canary Islands, Madeira and Bermuda1

Ocean Atlantic, Mar Caribic, Golf dal Mexico

Pagina iniziala

It grows on shallow coral reefs, rocks, dead corals and even the hulls of wrecked ships, at depths of up to 40 metres. Divers are the people most likely to meet it.1

Lunghezza

50 cm (1,6 ft)1

Sveltezza maximala

circa 0,01 km/h (0,01 mph)

Nudar, stima approximativa

Tge mangia el?

It feeds on plankton. Its hairlike tentacles sting prey to immobilise it, then pass the food into a stomach-like polyp for digestion.1

Foto da Branching fire coral — Branching fire coral. Foto: Nhobgood Nick Hobgood. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.

Co renconuscher el

Its branches are cylindrical and grow in a single plane.1
Branches range in colour from brown to pale, cream-like yellow, with white tips.1
In surf-battered outer reef edges it forms flat plates or blades.1
In calm, deep or sheltered water it grows upright, leafy or branched, up to 50 cm tall.1

Forza dal tissi

Piztgadas

Il tissi vegn or tras in aguigl.

Tge fa ses tissi?

Its sting injects a water-soluble protein venom. The venom causes a painful burning sensation, skin eruptions, blisters and scarring.1

Quant privlus è el per umans?

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

It can cause painful stings to unwary divers. Its cells are strong enough to sting human skin.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

Nua sin il mund?

Africa Asia Europa America dal Nord America dal Sid Australia ed Oceania Ocean Atlantic Mar Caribic Golf dal Mexico

Quant grond è el?

Quant lung è el?

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 Branching fire coral cumpareglià cun TAI?

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

Quant svelt è el?

In chaval da mar circa 0,0015 km/h (0 mph)

Branching fire coral circa 0,01 km/h (0,01 mph)

Ina lindorna da curtin circa 0,05 km/h (0,03 mph)

bun da savair

Fatgs

When it grows near a sea fan, it grows special 'attack' branches that wrap around and smother the fan.1

It is not a true coral. It belongs to the class Hydrozoa and is more closely related to jellyfish than to stony corals.1

Small fish and shrimp shelter among its branches and seem unaffected by its venom.1

It is one of the first corals to bleach in warm water, but it recovers from damage faster than most other corals.1

About 75% of its energy comes from microscopic algae living in its tissues.1

Destructur da mits

Mit: It is a true coral like the stony corals that build reefs.

Vardad: It is not a true coral. It is a hydrozoan, more closely related to jellyfish.1

Per experts da tissi

Num scientific: Millepora alcicornis
Gruppa: Medusas ed autras creaturas da mar che piztgan
Famiglia: Milleporidae2
Urden: Anthoathecata
Continents: Ocean Atlantic, Mar Caribic, Golf dal Mexico, Ils oceans
Poppins: It reproduces by fragments breaking off and growing into new colonies, and by budding short-lived, jellyfish-like medusae that release larvae.1
Privel per umans: 2 / 5: Dolurus3

Da nua che vegnan ils fatgs

Millepora alcicornis (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
Millepora alcicornis (iNaturalist): nums e classificaziun.
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