Critically Endangered
Diploria labyrinthiformis
Diploria labyrinthiformis
Diploria is a monotypic genus of massive reef building stony corals in the family Mussidae.
Appearance
This species of reef-building coral has a hemispherical, brain-like shape with a brown, yellow, or grey colour. There may be a difference in colour between the valleys and the grooves.
Range and habitat
Diploria labyrinthiformis is found in tropical parts of the west Atlantic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea, the southern tip of Florida, the Bahamas, Bermuda and the coasts of Central America. This coral occurs offshore at depths ranging from 1 to 30 metres (3.3 to 98.4 feet). The Diploria coral is important to its environment because it helps researchers see how the oceans temperature has changed over time by looking at the layers in the coral skeleton.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Habits
Diploria labyrinthiformis is hermaphroditic, employing a broadcast-spawning method to reproduce.
In crisis
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix II. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Warm-water bleaching, sedimentation, destructive fishing, and the curio trade sit behind many stony-coral badges. That is the group backdrop — confirm the official criteria for this name on the Red List.
Diploria labyrinthiformis is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Diploria labyrinthiformis, Wikidata item Q3029019. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
