Critically Endangered
Millepora complanata
Millepora complanata
Millepora complanata is a hydrozoan in the family Milleporidae (order Anthoathecata), recorded as Critically Endangered.
Appearance
This fire coral is pale brown or cream coloured, with white tips to the blades.
Range and habitat
It is found in shallow waters in the Caribbean Sea where it is a common species.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Habits
This hydrozoan order includes fire corals: colonial stingers with a hard skeleton on shallow reefs.
In crisis
The International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed its conservation status as being critically endangered.
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix II. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Millepora complanata 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 Millepora complanata, Wikidata item Q3321841. 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.
