Calicoblastic Neoplasms in Acropora palmata, With a Review of Reports on Anomalies of Growth and Forms in Corals

Location

AMERICAN SAMOA

Author(s)

Peters, Esther C.

Halas, John C.

McCarty Harry B.

Publisher

National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

Publication Year:

1985

Publication Place

Washington, DC

Physical Description:

18 pp; illus; tables

Call Number

VF 41525

Language

English

Record ID:

19061

Legacy PEIN ID:

58975

General Notes

Colonies of the elkhorn coral (Acropora palmata), possessing raised, whitened, irregularly shaped skeletal protuberances, were discovered at Carysfort Reef and Grecian Rocks, Key Largo National Marine Santuary, Key Largo, FL.

Subject Heading(s)

Criteria for Neoplasi in A. palmata

Environment - Protection - Samoa

Pathogenesis

Etiology

Review of suspected neoplasma in the corals

Series Title

Vol. 76, NO.5