Sex ratios from stranded sea turtles on the upper Texas Coast

Journal of Herpetology

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 427-430

  Stäbenau, Erich K ^a,b   Stanley, Kerry S ^a   Landry Jr , Andre M ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BRADLEY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHELONIIDAE; TESTUDINES;

EID: 0030424773     PISSN: 00221511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1565186     Document Type: Article

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