Abstract
We report first observations of three coral diseases including black band disease on Acropora, a syndrome resembling yellow band disease and red band disease on Porites colonies from depth 5–6 m at Abu-Musa Island after widespread coral bleaching in the northern part of the Persian Gulf in October 2012.
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Coral diseases as one of the most important stressor degrading global coral reefs including those in ISSN 0974-7907 (Online) the Persian Gulf where there is little ISSN 0974-7893 (Print) information on coral diseases (Riegl PLATINUM et al 2012); in recent OPEN ACCESS years more known and unidentified diseases have been recorded especially from the northern Persian Gulf including Larak, Qeshm, Hengam, and Hormuz Islands (Kavousi et al 2011, 2013; Tavakoli-Kolour et al 2015)
black band disease (BBD) and yellow band disease (YBD) were already recorded from the Persian Gulf, red band disease (RBD) (Image 3) is reported from the Persian Gulf for the first time
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