Plate fire coral
Plate fire coral is a reef-building animal that looks like a coral but is actually a relative of jellyfish. It grows in shallow, sunny reef water across the Indo-Pacific, from the Red Sea and East Africa to northern Australia and French Polynesia. It matters because it helps build reefs and can give a painful burning sting.1

Tsela ya go e lemoga
- Colonies are yellow-green or light-brown, and the tips may be white.1
- It usually grows in plate-like or blade-like forms, though it can also form branches, fans or encrusting layers.1
- Colonies often measure 200 to 300 cm across and can be up to 200 cm high.1
Gantsi e tlhakanngwa le: Other fire corals, such as Millepora dichotoma and Millepora exaesa, are often confused with it. Plate fire coral is generally plate-like or blade-like, which helps tell it apart from them.1
Maatla a botlhole
Botlhole bo tswa ka lemao le le tlhabang.
Botlhole jo e bo tsenyang bo dira eng?
Its defensive polyps carry stinging cells called nematocysts. Contact with them causes a burning sensation in humans.1
E kotsi go le kae go batho?
Kotsi go batho: E botlhokoE ka utlwisa botlhoko tota, mme go seoka thata gore e nne masisi.E dira eng fa e tshogile?
Its defensive polyps have long tentacles that sting anything that touches them.1
Fa e tlhaba
- Tswa mo metsing mme o tlose mesela (tentacles) epe fela e e setseng (ka ditlelafo kgotsa ka lesela).
- Ya dijelifishi tsa lebokoso tsa tropiki: tshela asene mo mafelong a a tlhabilweng bonnye metsotswana e le 30, bitsa thuso mme o ipaakanyetse go dira CPR. Ya dibluebottle le tse dingwe tse dintsi: tlhatswa ka metsi a lewatle, morago ka metsi a a mogote go fokotsa botlhoko.
Ka gale leletsa nomoro ya gago ya tshoganyetso pele (112, 000, 911). Se ke kaelo e e akaretsang ya thuso ya ntlha, ga se kgakololo ya bongaka. Motheo wa thuso ya ntlha
Nna o babalesegile
- O se ka wa ama, wa tshwara kgotsa wa tshwenya phologolo ya naga, le fa e le e nnye, le fa e lebega e robetse kgotsa e sule.
- E fe sebaka. Fa o kopana le yone, ritibala, boela morago ka bonya mme o e tlogele e tsamaye ka tsela ya yone.
- Fa e nngwe e go tlhaba: ritibala, o se ka wa tshikinyega, leletsa nomoro ya gago ya tshoganyetso (112, 000, 911) kgotsa o ye bookelong ka bonako. Gopola gore e ne e lebega jang, setshwantsho se a thusa.
Ga e go batle. E dirisa botlhole jwa yone go tshwara dijo kgotsa go itshireletsa, mme e rata go iphitlha go feta. Go le gontsi ka go nna o babalesegile
Kae mo lefatsheng?
E kgolo go le kae?
E telele go le kae?
boleele jo bo lekanang le dintša di le 3 go tloga kwa nkong go ya mogatleng
boleele jo bo lekanang le dipanana di le 17 di latelana
bonya go feta kgopa ya tshingwanaPlate fire coral e kgolo go le kae fa e bapisiwa le WENA?
Ke dipalo fela mo sefetleng sa gago (browser). Ga go sepe se se bolokwang kgotsa se se romelwang gope.
E bonako go le kae?
Dintlha
Despite its name, plate fire coral is not a true coral. It belongs to the class Hydrozoa, which is separate from the stony and soft corals.1
It has two kinds of polyps: feeding polyps for catching food and defensive polyps with longer tentacles for protection.1
Its colonies can break into fragments during rough water, and these fragments can drift and start new colonies on nearby reefs.1
It can take many forms, including branches, fans, plates, blades and encrusting layers, and its shape depends on where it grows.1
It was once thought to have disappeared from the Eastern Pacific after bleaching events, but researchers later confirmed that its range extends back there.1
It helps build reefs in the Indo-Pacific region.1
Mosenyi wa ditlhamane
Tlhamane: Plate fire coral is a true coral.
Nnete: It is a hydrozoan, not a true coral, and is separate from the stony and soft corals.1
Ya baitseanape ba botlhole
- Leina la saense
- Millepora platyphylla
- Setlhopha
- Dijelifishi le dibopiwa tsa lewatle tse di tlhabang
- Lelapa
- Milleporidae2
- Lekoko
- Anthoathecata
- Dikontinente
- Lewatle la Pacific, Lewatle la India, Lewatle le Lehibidu, Lewatle la Coral, Lewatle la Philippines, Lewatle la Timor le la Arafura, Kou ya Bengal, Mawatle
- Masea
- It releases reproductive buds that send eggs and sperm into the water, where fertilisation happens outside the body. The free-swimming larvae settle and become polyps after about 1 day.1
- Kotsi go batho
- 2 / 5: E botlhoko3
Kwa dintlha di tswang teng
- Millepora platyphylla (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Millepora platyphylla (iNaturalist): maina le thulaganyo ya mefuta.
- Venom Wiki: seelo sa kotsi, bogolo jo bo tlwaelegileng le kakanyo ya lebelo ke tsa rona. Bona kafa re di balang ka teng: Kafa re lekanyang kotsi ka teng.
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Go tlhaba
