Previous literature on Bahamian sponges

Abstract

An almost indispensable introduction to the study of West Indian sponges is de Laubenfels’ brief guide (1953b), chiefly because of its annotated bibliography. The concise introduction into the biology of Porifera, though little more than a glossary, is still useful to the marine biologist, but is now becoming inadequate and in part obsolete because of the recent advances in this field. The systematic-descriptive part of de Laubenfels’ guide is unfortunately unreliable and obsolete.