coral death marks
Bruce Carlson
carlson at soest.hawaii.edu
Sat Aug 16 00:55:41 EDT 1997
Les,
I can give you photos for scars produced by Exallias brevis and Chaetodon
ornatissimus. Both produce similar, superficial scars which are easily
recognizable on Porites spp. I do not have photos of the deeper scars
produced by Arothron meleagris and Cantherhines dumerilii and other
similar coralivores.
Bruce
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On Fri, 15 Aug 1997, Les Kaufman wrote:
> Is there somewhere an illustrated encyclopedia of predator lesions on
> corals and the organisms that produced them? I once produced such a thing
> for Jamaica, am now having to do it in Hawaii (since so much is known
> this is not terribly difficult), and continually feel like
> this is reinventing the wheel. Or could we just pool our information so
> the resource WOULD exist, say, on the WWW. The same would be useful for
> responses to stressors that might be mistaken for bleaching.
>
>
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