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AN extensive mortality of fishes in two brackish water lakes. Ketting Nor and Selse So in the Lesser Belt region of Denmark, has been found by C. V. Otterstrem and E. Steemann Nielsen (Rep. Danish Biol. Sta., 44 ; 1939) to be associated with a transitory dominance in the plankton of the brown flagellate Prymnesiun parvum Carter, 1938. This cryptomonad has been found before in Europe, always in brackish waters, and in Holland it was also implicated in large-scale destruction of fishes.
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SPROSTON, N. FISH MORTALITY DUE TO A BROWN FLAGELLATE. Nature 158, 70–71 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158070b0
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