Critically Endangered Animal Species of India 2011 - Corals

Critically Endangered Animal Species of India 2011 - Corals


Fire corals (Millepora boschmai)
Found: Indonesia, Gulf of Chiriquí, Panama Pacific Province. Possibly extinct from Australia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Panama, Singapore and Thailand.
Threats: Collected for decoration and jewellery trade. This group is also sensitive to temperature rise, and is thought to have completely disappeared from the majority of marine areas possibly because of growing global warming related bleaching effects.

Other Critically Endangered Species of India

birds       mammals        reptiles

amphibians

fish   coral

spiders

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