Millepora tenera

The hydrozoan

It was first described in 1949 by the Dutch zoologist Hilbrand Boschma.

Range and habitat

Millepora tenera is native to the western Indo-Pacific. Its range extends from the Red Sea and the eastern coast of Africa to much of Southeast Asia, Australia, American Samoa, and the Mariana Islands. It is found at depths no greater than 15 metres (49 ft), often in turbid locations where it is tolerant of some degree of siltation.

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

Under adverse environmental conditions, and like other corals, is threatened by degradation of its coral reef habitat. The International Union for Conservation of Nature changed its status from Least Concern in 2014 to Endangered in 2022.

CITES lists this taxon on Appendix II. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.

Millepora tenera 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 tenera, Wikidata item Q2189041. 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.