Invertebrate Zoology
Malacology and Marine Invertebrates
Coralline White Band Syndrome
Photos of Coralline White Band Syndrome (Goreau et al. 1998, Ballantine et al. 2004).
All photos taken by Jada-Simone S. White from recruitment tiles outplanted in the northern lagoons in Moorea, French Polynesia. For additional information regarding photos, contact jswhite@ufl.edu
Figure 1. Porolithon onkodes afflicted with early stages of CWBS.
Figure 2. Titanoderma prototypum afflicted with two instances of CWBS.
Figure 3. Lithophyllum cf. flavicum and Porolithon afflicted with later stage of CWBS. Note white line is no longer obvious.
Figure 4. Unidentified CCA afflicted with later stage of CWBS.
Literature Cited
- Goreau, TJ, J Cervino, M Goreau, R Hayes, M Hayes, L Richardson, G Smith, K DeMeyer, I Nagelkerken, J Garzon-Ferrera, D Gil, G Garrison, EH Williams, L Bunkley-Williams, C Quirolo, K Patterson, JW Porter, K Porter (1998) Rapid spread of diseases in Caribbean coral reefs, Rev. Biol. Trop. 46: 157--171.
- Ballantine, DL, E Weil, H Ruiz (2004) Coralline White Band Syndrome, a coralline algal affliction in the tropical Atlantic, Coral Reefs 24: 117.
