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Types of Coral Disease and Their Identification

Differences between White-Band Disease and White Plague

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Star coral (M. annularis) with white plague.


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Elkhorn coral, A. palmata with white-band disease.

 
White plague (WP) is similar in appearance to white-band disease (WBD), in that a prominent band of exposed white skeleton is visible adjacent to living tissue.

Unlike WBD, white plague affects massive, plating and branching corals other than staghorn and elkhorn coral (Acropora spp.).
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