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

Indlela yokusibona
- 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
Ivamise ukudidaniswa ne: 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
Amandla obuthi
Ubuthi buphuma ngodosi.
Ubuthi baso benzani?
Its defensive polyps carry stinging cells called nematocysts. Contact with them causes a burning sensation in humans.1
Siyingozi kangakanani ebantwini?
Ingozi ebantwini: KubuhlunguKungaba buhlungu ngempela, kodwa cishe akukaze kube kubi kakhulu.Senzani uma sesabile?
Its defensive polyps have long tentacles that sting anything that touches them.1
Uma sihlaba
- Phuma emanzini bese ukhipha noma yimiphi imicu ehlabayo (ama-tentacle) (ngamagilavu noma ngendwangu).
- Kuma-box jellyfish asezindaweni ezishisayo: thela uviniga ezindaweni ezihlatshiwe okungenani imizuzwana engama-30, biza usizo futhi ulungele ukwenza i-CPR. Kuma-bluebottle nakwamanye amaningi: hlanza ngamanzi olwandle, bese usebenzisa amanzi ashisayo ngenxa yobuhlungu.
Njalo shayela kuqala inombolo yezimo eziphuthumayo (112, 000, 911). Lokhu kuyiseluleko sosizo lokuqala esijwayelekile, akusona iseluleko sezokwelapha. Izisekelo zosizo lokuqala
Hlala uphephile
- Ungalokothi uthinte, ubambe noma ugcone isilwane sasendle, ngisho noma sincane, futhi ngisho noma sibukeka silele noma sifile.
- Sinike isikhala. Uma uhlangana naso, hlala uzolile, uhlehle kancane bese usiyeka sihambe ngendlela yaso.
- Uma sikuhlaba: hlala uzolile, ungashukumi, shayela inombolo yezimo eziphuthumayo (112, 000, 911) noma uye esibhedlela ngokushesha. Khumbula ukuthi besibukeka kanjani, isithombe siyasiza.
Asikuzingeli wena. Sisebenzisa ubuthi baso ukuze sibambe ukudla noma ukuzivikela, futhi singancamela ukucasha. Okwengeziwe mayelana nokuhlala uphephile
Kuphi emhlabeni?
Sikhulu kangakanani?
Side kangakanani?
side njengezinja ezingu-3 kusuka ekhaleni kuya emsileni
side njengobhanana abangu-17 abalandelanayo
sihamba kancane kunomnenke wasengadiniPlate fire coral mkhulu kangakanani uma uqhathanisa NAWE?
Yizibalo nje kusiphequluli sakho. Akukho okulondolozwayo noma okuthunyelwa ndawo.
Sishesha kangakanani?
Amaqiniso
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
Umqothuli wezinganekwane
Inganekwane: Plate fire coral is a true coral.
Iqiniso: It is a hydrozoan, not a true coral, and is separate from the stony and soft corals.1
Okongoti bobuthi
- Igama lesayensi
- Millepora platyphylla
- Iqembu
- Ama-jellyfish nezinye izilwane zasolwandle ezihlabayo
- Umndeni
- Milleporidae2
- Ukuhleleka
- Anthoathecata
- Amazwekazi
- ULwandlekazi iPacific, ULwandlekazi i-India, Ulwandle Olubomvu, Ulwandle iCoral, Ulwandle lwasePhilippines, Ulwandle lwaseTimor ne-Arafura, Ichweba laseBengal, Izilwandlekazi
- Izinsana
- 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
- Ingozi ebantwini
- 2 / 5: Kubuhlungu3
Lapho amaqiniso evela khona
- Millepora platyphylla (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Millepora platyphylla (iNaturalist): amagama nokuhlelwa ngezigaba.
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