Multiple Recaptures of a Hybrid Hawksbill-Loggerhead Turtle in the Ten Thousand Islands, Southwest Florida

Herpetological Review

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 323-325

  Witzell, W N ^a   Schmid, Jeffrey R ^b  

^a NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

^b Conservancy of Southwest Florida ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARETTA CARETTA; ERETMOCHELYS IMBRICATA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 0347692812     PISSN: 0018084X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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