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FOR years I had received newspaper clippings and second-hand verbal recitals of whale sharks seen off the west side of the Bahamas. Much effort was made to verify these, but for a long time I had no evidence of scientific value. However, in July 1936, there came to me authentic data concerning a specimen seen off Bimini, and shortly thereafter I published a faunal record for Rhineodon in the Bahamas1.
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Science, 84, 227 (1936).
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GUDGER, E. A School of Whale Sharks in the Bahama Islands. Nature 143, 79–80 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143079b0
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