A healed propeller wound on a wild loggerhead turtle, Caretta caretta (Testudines, Cheloniidae), occupied by a pelagic crab, Planes minutus, in the Azores Islands, Portugal

This paper details and discusses a helix-induced injury to the right anterior shell of a seemingly healthy subadult loggerhead turtle. On 10 September 2018, two of the authors (JBB and JPB) located a loggerhead sea turtle resting on the rocky reef bottom at a depth of about 10 m while freediving off...

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Main Author: Anjos, Marcelo R. (author)
Other Authors: Pelegrini, Larissa S. (author), Barreiros, João B. V. (author), Barcelos, Luis M. D. (author), Barreiros, João P. (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2021
Subjects:
Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758)
Tartaruga Marinha
Marine Turtles
Azores
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.3/6097
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio.uac.pt:10400.3/6097

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http://hdl.handle.net/10400.3/6097

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