Origin of green turtles, Chelonia mydas, at 'sleeping rocks' off the northeast coast of Nicaragua

Copeia

Volumn , Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1064-1069

  Bass, Anna L ^a   Lagueux, Cynthia J ^a   Bowen, Brian W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

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CHELONIA MYDAS;

EID: 0032583427     PISSN: 00458511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1447360     Document Type: Article

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