{"id":3557,"date":"2024-05-11T09:54:52","date_gmt":"2024-05-11T09:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/?page_id=3557"},"modified":"2026-04-06T13:35:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T13:35:56","slug":"fire-coral-villages","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/observations-ii\/photos-2017-2020\/fire-coral-villages\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Coral Villages"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThis page is a sub-page of Photos 2017-2020<\/a>
\nPhotos 2017-2020<\/strong>\u00a0is a sub-page of ObsII<\/a> a top-level page on
\nthe website Barbados Fringing Reefs and Seagrass Beds<\/a> (www.versicolor.ca\/barbados).
\nGo to ObsII<\/a> to view a list of all pages and subpages under ObsII<\/small><\/p>\n

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From a Public Facebook Album<\/a>
\nPhotos Posted Feb & Mar, 2020.<\/p>\n

Also view
\n– Squarrose Fire Coral Communities in Barbados<\/strong><\/a>
\nPhoto album, 2015; ‘includes a short video with damselfish.
\n– Cities of Gold<\/strong><\/a> (YouTube video, 2023)<\/p>\n

Fire Coral Villages Album Description:<\/p>\n

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I cite 3 species, however based on more detailed observations in 2024 I think that most of the “M.sqaurrosa<\/em>” were or could have been\u00a0\u00a0M. companata<\/em> specimens. See Obs I\/Taxonomix Issues\/Fire Corals (Millepora spp)<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

“I don\u2019t think fire corals were nearly so abundant on Barbados fringing reefs 50 years ago, certainly I remember them as mostly an irritant and not much else. But today, they are prominent features where the reefs are doing well or half well, especially on the Reef Crest (where the waves break) and on the advancing Spurs towards and at the seaward edge at 2-5 m or so depth. They form some beautiful aggregations that could elicit a description as \u201cvillages of gold\u201d, and those villages are home to a host of fauna and flora, some not found elsewhere in the reef. In the old days when everything was abundant, we probably would have taken a hammer and broken them apart to find outs what\u2019s in them, today I use a camera. So this album<\/a> will record some of my visual impressions and shots of some of the inhabitants. \u2019Will begin with a few landscape shots.”<\/p>\n

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