First confirmed East-West transpacific movement of a loggerhead sea turtle, Caretta caretta, released in Baja California, Mexico

Pacific Science

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 151-153

  Resendiz, Antonio ^a   Resendiz, Beatris ^b   Nichols, Wallace J ^c   Seminoff, Jeffrey A ^c   Kamezaki, Naoki ^d  

^a Centro Regional de Investigaciones Pesqueras de Ensenada (CRIP)   (Mexico)

^b Sea Turtle Research Station   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIGRATION; TURTLE;

PACIFIC;

CARETTA CARETTA;

EID: 0031878803     PISSN: 00308870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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