Brazilian coral reefs: What we already know and what is still missing

By C. Castro, D. O. Pires. 2001

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Effects of the alien coral Tubastraea tagusensis on native coral assemblages in a southwestern Atlantic coral reef (2016, background): “The orange cup coral represents a serious threat to the local marine biodiversity (Creed 2006) because Brazilian reefs are relatively poor in coral species but have high endemism (Castro and Pires 2001; Leão and Kikuchi 2001; Neves et al. 2006; Nunes et al. 2008).”
Change in tropical rocky shore communities due to an alien coral invasion (2011, background): “However, the ahermatypic coral Tubastraea (Scleractinia: Dendrophylliidae) is nonindigenous to the Atlantic Ocean and was probably brought to Brazilian waters in the late 1980s (Castro & Pires 2001) by oil and gas platforms.”
The invasion of the azooxanthellate coral Tubastraea (Scleractinia: Dendrophylliidae) throughout the world: history, pathways and vectors (2016, background): “4a); the first published record of the genus on rocky shores in Brazil was Castro and Pires (2001) and thereafter on several oil platforms mainly off Rio de Janeiro in the Campos Basin (Table 1).”
Orange Cup Coral Tubastraea coccinea invades Florida and the Flower Garden Banks, Northwestern Gulf of Mexico (2004, background): “Dispersal to Brazil was by mobile oil drilling platforms (Castro and Pires 2001; Ferreira 2003; Figueira de Paula and Creed 2004).”