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Table 8 in SYNOPSIS OF THE BIOLOGICAL DATA ON THE LOGGERHEAD SEA TURTLE CARETTA CARETTA (LINNAEUS 1758)
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Table 8. Body mass (kg) offemale loggerhead sea turtles. (Mass is for nesting animals unless otherwise indicated.)
| Location | Mean | Range | N | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atlantic | ||||
| Florida | 118.2 | 89.7-170.9 | 47 | Ehrhart and Yoder (1978) |
| Florida | 116.3 | 71.7- 148.9 | 93 | Ehrhart and Yoder (1978) |
| Florida | 114.7 | 79.6-180.7 | 121 | Ehrhart and Yoder (1978) |
| Indian | ||||
| Tongaland | 106.9 | 80.9-129.6 | 31 | Hughes (1974 *) |
| Oman | 118.0 | P- 165.0 | 51 | Ross (1979) |
| Mediterranean | ||||
| Israel ᵃ | 27.7 | — | — | Sella (1982) |
| Turkeyᵇ | 57.5 | 40-75 | — | Geldiay et al. (1982) |
| Pacific | ||||
| Queensland | 100.7 | 70.3-146.1 | 112 | Limpus (1985) |
1 Nonnesting animals.
""Presumed not to be nesting animals.
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Published as part of C. Kenneth Dodd, Jr., 1988, SYNOPSIS OF THE BIOLOGICAL DATA ON THE LOGGERHEAD SEA TURTLE CARETTA CARETTA (LINNAEUS 1758), pp. 31 in Biological report 88 (14) on page 31, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14224174
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References
- Ehrhart, L. M., and R. G. Yoder. 1978. Marine turtles of Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Fla. Mar. Res. Publ. 33: 25 - 30.
- Hughes, G. R. 1974 a. The sea turtles of south-east Africa. II. The biology of the Tongaland loggerhead turtle Caretta caretta L. with comments on the leatherback turtle Dermochelys coriacea L. and the green turtle Chelonia mydas L. in the study region. Oceanogr. Res. Inst. Invest. Rep. No. 36.
- Ross, J. P. 1979. Sea turtles in the Sultanate of Oman. World Wildl. Fund Project No. 1320.
- Sella, I. 1982 a. Sea turtles in the eastern Mediterranean and northern Red Sea. Pages 417 - 423 in K. Bjorndal (ed.), Biology and conservation of sea turtles. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC.
- Geldiay, R., T. Koray, and S. Balik. 1982. Status of sea turtle populations (Caretta c. caretta and Chelonia m. mydas) in the northern Mediterranean Sea, Turkey. Pages 425 - 434 in K. Bjorndal (ed.), Biology and conservation of sea turtles. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC.
- Limpus, CJ. 1985. A study of the loggerhead sea turtle, Caretta caretta, in eastern Australia. Unpubl. Ph. D. Dissertation. University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Australia.