Vol. 46 No. 4, 2007

The “Black Disease”of Reef-Building Corals at Green Island, Taiwan - Outbreak of a Cyanobacteriosponge, Terpios hoshinota (Suberitidae; Hadromerida)

Ming-Hui Liao^1,2, Sen-Ling Tang¹, Chia-Ming Hsu^1,2, Kou-Chang Wen¹, Henry Wu¹, Wen-Ming Chen³, Jih-Terng Wang⁴, Pei-Jie Meng⁵, Wen-Hung Twan⁵, Chung-Kuang Lu⁵, Chang-Feng Dai², Keryea Soong⁶, and Chaolun Allen Chen^1,2,*

¹Research Center for Biodiversity, Academia Sinica, Nangang 115, Taipei, Taiwan
²Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University, Taipei 116, Taiwan
³Department of Sea Food Science, National Kaohsiung Marine University, Kaohsiung 811, Taiwan
⁴Institute of Biotechnology, Tajen University, Yanpu, Pingtung 907, Taiwan
⁵National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium, Hengchun, Pingtung 946, Taiwan
⁶Institute of Marine Biology, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung 804, Taiwan

*Correspondence: E-mail:cac@gate.sinica.edu.tw