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Plate fire coral

Millepora platyphylla

名字的由来： The name "fire coral" comes from its stinging cells, which cause a burning feeling on human skin.1

只是会疼会疼，但不会对你造成严重伤害。

水母和海中蜇人生物

蜇伤吃：肉

对人的危险: 很疼可能真的很疼，但几乎从不严重。

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

生活在

Red Sea and East Africa to northern Australia and French Polynesia, across the Indo-Pacific1

太平洋, 印度洋, 红海, 珊瑚海, 菲律宾海, 帝汶海和阿拉弗拉海, 孟加拉湾

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It lives in the shallows of the reef crest, usually above 5 metres deep but sometimes down to 10 metres. It is also found in the surf zone and in the spur and groove zone, where waves are strong.1

长度

2 m到3 m (6.6 ft到9.8 ft)1

最高速度

约 0.01 公里/小时（0.01 英里/小时）

游泳, 粗略估计

它吃什么？

It catches zooplankton, tiny animals floating in the water, using feeding polyps whose mouths open and close when food is present. It also gets nutrients from algae living inside its tissue, which make energy through photosynthesis.1

Plate fire coral的照片 — Plate fire coral。照片：Esv - Eduard Solà Vázquez。 CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.

怎样认出它

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

常被误认为： 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

毒液之力

蜇伤

毒液通过蜇刺出来。

它的毒液会造成什么？

Its defensive polyps carry stinging cells called nematocysts. Contact with them causes a burning sensation in humans.1

它对人有多危险？

对人的危险: 很疼可能真的很疼，但几乎从不严重。

它害怕时会做什么？

Its defensive polyps have long tentacles that sting anything that touches them.1

如果它蜇人

离开水面，取下所有触手（戴手套或用布）。
热带箱水母：在蜇伤处倒醋至少 30 秒，呼救，并准备好做心肺复苏。僧帽水母和大多数其他水母：先用海水冲洗，再用热水止痛。

一定先拨打你的急救电话（112、000、911）。这里是一般急救指导，不是医疗建议。急救基础

注意安全

永远不要摸、抓或逗弄野生动物，即使是很小的，即使它看起来在睡觉或已经死了。
给它留出空间。如果遇到它，保持冷静，慢慢后退，让它走自己的路。
如果被它蜇了：保持冷静，保持不动，拨打你的急救电话（112、000、911）或尽快去医院。记住它长什么样，拍张照片会有帮助。

它不是冲着你来的。它用毒液捕猎或保护自己，而且它更愿意躲起来。更多安全知识

在世界哪里？

非洲亚洲欧洲北美洲南美洲澳大利亚和大洋洲太平洋印度洋红海珊瑚海菲律宾海帝汶海和阿拉弗拉海孟加拉湾

它有多大？

它有多长？

和 3 只狗鼻子接尾巴一样长和 17 根香蕉首尾相接一样长比花园蜗牛还慢

Plate fire coral和你比起来有多大？

只是在你的浏览器里算一算。什么都不会被保存或发送到任何地方。

它有多快？

一只海马 约 0.0015 公里/小时 (0 mph)

Plate fire coral 约 0.01 公里/小时 (0.01 mph)

一只花园蜗牛 约 0.05 公里/小时 (0.03 mph)

值得了解

事实

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

谣言粉碎机

谣言： Plate fire coral is a true coral.

真相： It is a hydrozoan, not a true coral, and is separate from the stony and soft corals.1

给毒液专家

学名: Millepora platyphylla
类别: 水母和海中蜇人生物
家人: Milleporidae2
排序: Anthoathecata
大洲: 太平洋, 印度洋, 红海, 珊瑚海, 菲律宾海, 帝汶海和阿拉弗拉海, 孟加拉湾, 海洋
宝宝: 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
对人的危险: 2 / 5: 很疼3