Evidence of Coral Diseases, Phase Shift, and Stressors in the Atolls of Lakshadweep Islands, Arabian Sea—With Geographical Notes on Their Occurrence within the Indian EEZ and Contiguous International Waters

Author:

Das Rocktim Ramen12ORCID,Sreeraj Chemmencheri Ramakrishnan13ORCID,Mohan Gopi1ORCID,Simon Nina Tabitha145,Ramachandran Purvaja1,Ramachandran Ramesh1,Krishnan Pandian16ORCID,Kumar Deepak Samuel Vijay1

Affiliation:

1. National Centre for Sustainable Coastal Management (NCSCM), Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEF&CC), Chennai 600-025, India

2. Molecular Invertebrates, Systematics and Ecology (MISE) Laboratory, Graduate School of Engineering and Science, University of the Ryukyus, Nishihara 903-0213, Okinawa, Japan

3. Western Ghat Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), Kozhikode 673-006, India

4. Marine Biology Regional Centre (MBRC), Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), Chennai 600-028, India

5. Department of Zoology, The University of Madras, Chennai 600-005, India

6. Bay of Bengal Program Inter-Governmental Organisation (BOBP-IGO), Chennai 600-018, India

Abstract

Photographic evidence of some important coral diseases (black band disease, black disease/Terpios hoshinota, white syndrome, pink line syndrome, pink spots, invertebrate galls, skeletal growth anomalies, tissue loss), coral competing sponges, and coral–algal phase shifts (competitive overgrowth of the seaweed Caulerpa spp. over corals and competitive scleractinian interactions such as with Halimeda spp.) have been collected during field observations in a few atolls within the Lakshadweep archipelago, Arabian Sea. Further, earlier reports of similar diseases and other stressors within the Indian Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) and its contiguous international waters, including the reefs of the Maldives and Sri Lanka, are highlighted and their distributional ranges are shown.

Funder

Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change

National Centre for Sustainable Coastal Management

Publisher

MDPI AG

Subject

Nature and Landscape Conservation,Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous),Ecological Modeling,Ecology

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