Endangered
Lithophyllon concinna
Lithophyllon concinna
Lithophyllon concinna is a stony coral in the family Fungiidae (order Scleractinia), recorded as Endangered and tied to Australia, Indonesia, and American Samoa.
The stony coral
Stony corals secrete a hard calcium-carbonate skeleton. A named ‘species’ on a reef is a colony of polyps, often hosting zooxanthellae that need sunlit, relatively clear water.
Anthozoans are corals and anemones: sessile polyps, often colonial, without a medusa stage. The photograph is the living colony.
Range and habitat
Lithophyllon concinna is recorded from Australia, Indonesia, American Samoa, Japan, French Polynesia, and Marshall Islands.
GBIF currently lists 1,199 occurrence points. Those points follow where people logged the taxon — museum drawers and surveys included — not a closed range boundary.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Habits
A stony-coral colony is fixed. Growth, bleaching, and death happen in place. Collection and gear damage remove the skeleton as well as the tissue.
The colony stays where it settled. Water quality, light, and a stable bottom decide whether tissue remains on the skeleton.
In crisis
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.
Lithophyllon concinna is 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 Wikidata item Q13768414 and GBIF occurrence geography. No dedicated encyclopedia article was available at build time. Family and order context is original writing about the group — not a claim that a monograph exists for this name. Not an IUCN assessment. Confirm status and range on iucnredlist.org.
