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CRES: Component: Marine Macroalgae Studies
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Ballantine, D.L., E. Weil and H. Ruiz. 2005. Coralline White Band Syndrome, a coralline algal affliction in the tropical Atlantic. Coral Reefs, 24: 117.
Circular disease front (arrow) killing
encrusting coralline red alga, Neogoniolithon accretum (Foslie & M.A.
Howe) Setchell & Mason. This condition is now common at
the edge of the insular shelf and N, accretum colonies
are presently in substantial less abundance than previously
seen.
Ballantine. D.L. and H. Ruiz. 2005. Two Peyssonnelia species
(Peyssonneliaceae, Rhodophyta) from Puerto Rico including P.
flavescens nov. sp. Phycologia. In Press. 
Peyssonnelia flavescens Ballantine & Ruiz,
a new species of encrusting coral reef-inhabiting algae is
a common deep (20 m) reef inhabitant and is one of the largest
species of the genus ever described.
Ballantine, D.L., H. Ruiz and N.E. Aponte. 2004. Notes on the Benthic Marine Algae of Puerto Rico VIII. Additions to the Flora. Botanica Marina 47: 335-340.
During the course of CRES macro algal
assessment, three red algal species: Lithothamnion occidentale (Foslie)
Foslie (Fig. 1), Lithophyllum congestum (Foslie) Foslie
(Fig, 2), Metapeyssonnelia corallepida M.Verlaque,
Ballest. & Antonius (Fig. 4) and one brown algal species: Dictyota
pfaffii Schnetter, have been newly recorded for the algal
flora of Puerto Rico.
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