Infectious bacteria of the species Vibrio shiloi are the bleaching agent of Oculina patagonica in the Mediterranean Sea, causing this effect by attacking the zooxanthellae.
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It is prone to bleaching, when a coral expels its zooxanthellae under stressful conditions, to black band disease, and to white plague.
This is because recruitment and survival rates of juveniles is low and this coral is particularly susceptible to both bleaching and white plague disease.