Endangered
Millepora platyphylla
Millepora platyphylla
Millepora platyphylla is a hydrozoan in the family Milleporidae (order Anthoathecata), recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
The corals can exhibit a yellow-green color or a light-brown color, though their tips may be white.
Range and habitat
Millepora platyphylla has a wide geographic range, especially compared with those of other species like Millepora latifolia and Millepora tenera. It is commonly found in the Indo-Pacific, that encompasses the Red Sea and French Polynesia. Even so, researchers have confirmed that its range now extends back to that location.
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 platyphylla 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 the English Wikipedia article on Millepora platyphylla, Wikidata item Q2429205. 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.
