Critically Endangered
Millepora nitida
Millepora nitida
Millepora nitida is a hydrozoan in the family Milleporidae (order Anthoathecata), recorded as Critically Endangered and tied to Brazil.
The hydrozoan
Fire corals are hydrozoans, not stony corals, but they still build a calcareous colony and sting. They sit on shallow tropical reefs.
This hydrozoan order includes fire corals: colonial stingers that still lay down a hard skeleton.
Range and habitat
Millepora nitida is recorded from Brazil.
GBIF currently lists 90 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
This hydrozoan order includes fire corals: colonial stingers with a hard skeleton on shallow reefs.
In crisis
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix II. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Millepora nitida 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 Wikidata item Q4010617 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.
