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Sunscreen – a threat to coral reefs?

If you don’t want to miss out on sunbathing, you should protect yourself from harmful UV rays and apply sunscreen to your skin as carefully as possible. However, protecting your skin from the sun’s rays also has its pitfalls. Unfortunately, a significant portion of the sunscreen products available still contain questionable organic chemical UV filters such as oxybenzone and octocrylene—a coral killer!

The Coral Reef Magazine - Issue 25 is published in specialist shops and is free again

01.04.2026 The new issue 25 will be published in the participating specialist retailers -

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FUNGIA Mushroom Corals

The family Fungiidae currently includes 15 genera with about 57 species. Although there are descriptions of fossils from the Cretaceous period, which are doubtful according to Veron, they are stony corals that only spread after the last great extinction about 65 million years ago.

Change in stony corals: Euphyllia becomes Fimbriaphyllia

And again we have to remember new names and forget old, certainly very established, names. The taxonomists have given new names to several corals previously known as Euphyllia. Here is a list of the relevant species and names.