White spot (disambiguation)

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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.

Contents 1 Disease 2 Fish 2.1 Sharks 3 Birds

[edit] Disease

• Ichthyophthirius multifiliis, freshwater fish parasite, the disease it causes is often called white spot.
• White spot syndrome a viral infection of penaeid shrimp.

[edit] Fish

• Whitespot, a common freshwater fish, native to Southeast Asia.
• White-spotted guitarfish, a type of ray. It has many variations, up to three meters and are grey with white spots.
• 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.

[edit] Sharks

• Whitespotted bambooshark, a mostly nocturnal carpet shark with reaching one meter 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.
• Whitespotted smooth-hound, a houndshark, family Triakidae, found in subtropical southeast Atlantic up to a length of 1.2 m.

[edit] Birds

• White-spotted Antvireo or White-streaked Antvireo, a species of bird in the Thamnophilidae family, found in South America.
• White-spotted Flufftail, an African species of bird in the Rallidae family.