First report of heavy metal presence in muscular tissue of loggerhead turtles Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758) from the Balearic Sea (Balearic Islands, Spain)

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (31) ◽  
pp. 39651-39656
Author(s):  
Maria Febrer-Serra ◽  
Emanuela Renga ◽  
Gloria Fernández ◽  
Nil Lassnig ◽  
Silvia Tejada ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metal ◽  
Caretta Caretta ◽  
Balearic Islands ◽  
Muscular Tissue ◽  
First Report ◽  
Balearic Sea ◽  
Loggerhead Turtles

scholarly journals Tursiocola denysii sp. nov. (Bacillariophyta) from the neck skin of Loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta)

Phytotaxa ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 234 (3) ◽  
pp. 227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Anthony Frankovich ◽  
Michael J. Sullivan ◽  
Nicole Indra Stacy
Keyword(s):  
Sea Turtles ◽  
Morphological Diversity ◽  
Caretta Caretta ◽  
Diatom Species ◽  
Loggerhead Sea Turtles ◽  
First Report ◽  
Loggerhead Turtles ◽  
First Time

Tursiocola denysii sp. nov. is described from the dorsal neck skin of loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta), bringing the total number of known species in the genus Tursiocola to eight. A gradient of striae density on the valve face, the low length:width ratio of the valves, radiate striae at mid-valve, and a second partial row of pores on the valvocopulae are characteristics that expand the range of morphological diversity within the genus. The different morphology of the pars interior and the pars exterior of the valvocopula is described for the first time in the genus. T. denysii accounted for up to ca. 40% of all diatom valves on the skin of loggerhead turtles. This is the first report of a new epizoic diatom species from the skin of loggerhead sea turtles.

Nest placement by loggerhead turtles, Caretta caretta

1993 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graeme C. Hays ◽  
John R. Speakman
Keyword(s):  
Caretta Caretta ◽  
Nest Placement ◽  
Loggerhead Turtles

scholarly journals Helminth communities of loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta) from Central and Western Mediterranean Sea: The importance of host's ontogeny

2010 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 367-375 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario Santoro ◽  
Francisco J. Badillo ◽  
Simonetta Mattiucci ◽  
Giuseppe Nascetti ◽  
Flegra Bentivegna ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Caretta Caretta ◽  
Western Mediterranean ◽  
Western Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Helminth Communities ◽  
Loggerhead Turtles

scholarly journals The practical use of computed tomography in evaluation of shell lesions in six loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta)

2016 ◽  
Vol 61 (No. 7) ◽  
pp. 394-398 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Spadola ◽  
G. Barillaro ◽  
M. Morici ◽  
A. Nocera ◽  
Z. Knotek
Keyword(s):  
Computed Tomography ◽  
Spinal Cord ◽  
Physical Examination ◽  
Lumbar Vertebra ◽  
Caretta Caretta ◽  
Tube Insertion ◽  
Computed Tomographic ◽  
Non Invasive ◽  
Loggerhead Turtles ◽  
Invasive Method

Six adult loggerhead turtles were found stranded and were rescued near Sicily within a period of 12 months. Macroscopically apparent lesions of the shell were present. After thorough physical examination, ketamine-dexmedetomidine-atipamezole induction and tracheal tube insertion all six patients underwent computed tomographic examination under inhalant anaesthesia with isoflurane. A vertebral lesion at the level of the 3<sup>rd</sup> thoracic-lumbar vertebra with vertebral lamina and the vertebral body being involved without compression of the spinal cord, a vertebral lesion at the level of the 7<sup>th</sup> thoracic-lumbar vertebra and a vertebral lesion at the level of the 8<sup>th</sup> thoracic-lumbar vertebra were recorded in the first female. Loss of the shell near the left carapace-plastron bridge, with massive haemorrhage and compression of organs were present in the second female. The remaining four turtles had only superficial lesions with no involvement of bones and organs of the coelom. Computed tomography was proved to be a valuable non-invasive method for clinical examination of stranded sea turtles.

Origin of juvenile loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta) in a tropical developmental habitat in Caribbean Panamá

2002 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tag N. Engstrom ◽  
Peter A. Meylan ◽  
Anne B. Meylan
Keyword(s):  
Caretta Caretta ◽  
Loggerhead Turtles
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