White spot
Appearance
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White spot may refer to:
- White Spot, a Canadian restaurant chain.
- Whitespot, a common freshwater fish, native to Southeast Asia.
- Great White Spot, periodic storms on the surface of Saturn, visible by telescope from Earth.
Disease
- Ichthyophthirius multifiliis, freshwater fish parasite, the disease it causes is often called white spot.
- Cryptocaryon irritans, marine fish parasite, also referred to as white spot.
- White spot syndrome a viral infection of penaeid shrimp.
White-spotted animals
Invertebrates
- Atlantic White-spotted Octopus
- Dardanus megistos, the white-spotted hermit crab.
- Pycnoclavela diminuta, the white-spotted sea-squirt.
- White-spotted nudibranch, a sea slug of South Africa.
Insects
- Agrias amydon, the white-spotted agrias of Latin America.
- Archaeoprepona amphimachus, the white spotted peprona of Latin America.
- Cosmia diffinis, the white-spotted pinion, a European moth.
- Eupithecia tripunctaria, the white-spotted geometer, a moth of North America and Europe.
- Eutricopis nexilis, the white-spotted midget, a moth of North America.
- Argyrotaenia alisellana, the white-spotted leafroller, a North American moth.
- Libythea narina, the white-spotted beak of India.
- Redectis vitrea, the white spotted redectis, a moth of the United States
- Thecla ziha, the white-spotted hairstreak of India.
Fish
- Acanthurus guttatus, the whitespotted surgeonfish.
- Canthigaster jactator, the hawaiian whitespotted puffer.
- Dascyllus albisella, the whitespotted damsel.
- Ecsenius trilineatus, a blenny of the Pacific Ocean.
- Gymnothorax johnsoni, the whitespotted moray.
- Gymnothorax punctatus the Red Sea whitespotted moray.
- Muraena argus the whitespotted moray of Peru and Galapagos.
- Ostracion meleagris, the whitespotted boxfish.
- Salvelinus leucomaenis, the whitespotted char.
- Salarias alboguttatus a Pacific blenny.
- Tire track eel or white-spotted spiny eel, of Asia.
- Whitespot, a common freshwater fish, native to Southeast Asia.
- White-spotted puffer, a medium sized fish, light grey in colour with small white spots.
- Whitespotted toadfish a species of fish in the Batrachoididae family, endemic to Belize.
Sharks and rays
- Sparsely-spotted stingaree, also called the white-spotted stingaree
- Whitespotted bambooshark, a mostly nocturnal carpet shark reaching one metre in length.
- Whitespotted bullhead shark, a bullhead shark of the family Heterodontidae, found in the western Indian Ocean up to a length of 64 cm.
- White-spotted guitarfish, ray of Africa's Atlantic coast.
- White-spotted Izak a cat shark of the Indian Ocean.
- Whitespotted smooth-hound, a houndshark, family Triakidae, found in subtropical southeast Atlantic up to a length of 1.2 m.
- Whitespotted whipray, a ray of the Indo-Pacific region.
Amphibians and reptiles
- Boiga drapiezii, the white-spotted cat snake of Asia.
- Lygosoma albopunctata, the white-spotted skink of Asia.
- White-spotted Salamander, of the United States.
- White-spotted Slimy Salamander, also of the United States.
Birds
- White-spotted Antvireo or White-streaked Antvireo, a member the Thamnophilidae family, found in South America.
- White-spotted Bluethroat, a European songbird.
- White-spotted Flufftail, an African member of the Rallidae family.
- White-spotted manikin, a subspecies of the Streak-headed Mannikin, a songbird of New Guinea.
- White-spotted Wattle-eye, a perching bird of Africa.
- White-spotted Woodpecker, a South American woodpecker.
Mammals
- Sri Lankan Spotted Chevrotain or white-spotted chevrotain.