 Other hosted diseases include white plague types I and II, dark spot, and skeletal anomalies, such as tumours and galls.Another pathogen, so far unidentified, killed in one year, between 2001 and 2002, approximately half of the corals present in Bird Key Reef of the Dry Tortugas.Despite this susceptibility to disease, the boulder brain coral is long-lived, with specimens capable of living for more than two hundred years.