Early fibropapillomas in Hawaii and occurrences in all sea turtle species: the panzootic, associated leeches wide-ranging on sea turtles, and species of study leeches should be identified.

Greenblatt et al. (4) discussed when fibropapilloma (FP)associated turtle herpesvirus (FPTHV) became established in Hawaiian populations of sea turtles without citing the earliest records of FPs in Hawaiian sea turtles (11). However, this was rather significant to their discussion since the records occurred only 10 years (from 1947 to 1952) (Fig. 1) after the first report in the Atlantic (9, 10) (Florida Keys, 1937) and thus suggested that FP was worldwide and not introduced into the Pacific (11), as their genetic data also would suggest.