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A HEAVY mortality among commercial sponges, similar to the Bahamas mortality reported by Galtsoff, Brown, Smith and Smith1, has appeared among sponges off the coast of British Honduras. The disease appeared first in the Bahamas in December 1938, on the north coast of Cuba in February 1939, and at Key West, Florida, in March. Losses were first reported from British Honduras in June and continued to appear during July and August.
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NATURE, 143, 807 (1939).
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SMITH, F. Sponge Mortality at British Honduras. Nature 144, 785 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144785a0
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