Marine sponges, other animal food, and nonfood items found in digestive tracts of the herbivorous marine turtle chelonia mydas in Hawai'i

Pacific Science

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 375-381

  Russell, Dennis J ^a   Hargrove, Stacy ^b   Balazs, George H ^b  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF SHARJAH   (United Arab Emirates)

^b NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGA; BODY SIZE; COLOR; DIET; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD CONSUMPTION; HERBIVORE; INVERTEBRATE; NUTRITIVE VALUE; PROTEIN; REEF; SEAGRASS; SILICA; SPONGE; TURTLE;

HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; CEPHALOPODA; CHELONIA MYDAS; CHELONIIDAE; CHONDROSIA; CNIDARIA; CODIUM ARABICUM; CRUSTACEA; ECHINODERMATA; INSECTA; MOLLUSCA; POACEAE; TESTUDINES;

EID: 79960484766     PISSN: 00308870     EISSN: 15346188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2984/65.3.375     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Amorocho, D. F., and R. D. Reina. 2007. Feeding ecology of the East Pacific green turtle Chelonia mydas agassii at Gorgona National Park, Colombia. Endang. Species Res. 3:43-51.
2. Arthur, K. E., and G. H. Balazs. 2008. A comparison of immature green turtle (Chelonia mydas) diets among seven sites in the Main Hawaiian Islands. Pac. Sci. 62:205-217. (Pubitemid 351566368)
3. Balazs, G. H. 1980. Synopsis of biological data on the green turtle in the Hawaiian Islands. NOAA Tech. Memo. NOAA-TM-NMFS-SWFC-7.
4. -. 1985. Impact of ocean debris on marine turtles: Entanglement and ingestion. Pages 387-429 in R. S. Shomura and H. O. Yoshida, eds. Proceedings of the Workshop on the Fate and Impact of Marine Debris, 26-29 November 1984, Honolulu, Hawai'i. NOAA Tech. Memo. NOAA-TM-NMFS-WWFC-54.
5. Balazs, G. H., R. G. Forsyth, and A. K. H. Kam. 1987. Preliminary assessment of habitat utilization by Hawaiian green tur-tles in their resident foraging pastures. NOAA Tech. Memo. NOAA TM-NMFS-SWFSC-71.
6. Balazs, G. H., and S. G. Pooley. 1991. Research plan for marine turtle fibropapillo-ma. NOAA Tech. Memo. NOAA-TM-NMFS-SWFC-156.
7. Bennett, P., U. Keuper-Bennett, and G. H. Balazs. 2008. Changing the landscape: Evidence for detrimental impacts to coral reefs by Hawaiian marine turtles. NOAA Tech. Memo. NOAA-TM-NMFS-SEFSC-147.
8. Bjorndal, K. A. 1990. Digestibility of the sponge Chondrilla nucula in the green turtle, Chelonia mydas. Bull. Mar. Sci. 47:567-570.
9. Carrion-Cortez, J. A., P. Zarate, and J. A. Seminoff. 2010. Feeding ecology of the green turtle (Chelonia mydas) in the Galapagos Islands. J. Mar. Biol. Assoc. U.K. 90:1005-1013.
10. Dobre, J. L. 1996. Lepidochelys kempii (Kemp's Ridley Turtle) feeding on insects. Herpe-tol. Rev. 27:199.
11. Fuentes, M. M. P. B., I. R. Lawler, and E. Gyuris. 2006. Dietary preferences of juvenile green turtles (Chelonia mydas) on a tropical reef flat. Wildl. Res. 33:671-678. (Pubitemid 46011104)
12. Garnett, S. T., I. R. Price, and F. J. Scott. 1985. The diet of the green turtle, Chelonia mydas (L.), in Torres Strait. Aust. Wildl. Res. 12:103-112.
13. Heithaus, M. R., J. M. McLash, A. Frid, L. M. Dill, and G. J. Marshal. 2002. Novel insights into the behavior of sea turtles from animal-borne cameras. J. Mar. Biol. Assoc. U.K. 82:1049-1050. (Pubitemid 36108381)
14. Hirth, H. F. 1971. Synopsis of the biological data on the green turtle, Chelonia mydas (Linnaeus) 1758. F.A.O Fish. Synop. No. 85.
15. -. 1997. Synopsis of the biological data on the green turtle, Chelonia mydas (Linnaeus 1758). U.S. Fish Wildl. Serv. Biol. Rep. 97 (1).
16. Meylan, A. B. 1988. Spongivory in hawksbill turtles: A diet of glass. Science ( Washington, D.C.) 239:393-395.
17. National Marine Fisheries Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 2007. Green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) 5-year review: Summary and evaluation. NMFS, Silver Spring
18. Maryland, and USFWS Southeast Region, Jacksonville Ecological Services Field Office, Jacksonville, Florida.
19. Rao, P. V. 1998. Statistical research methods in the life sciences. Duxbury Press, Pacific Grove, California.
20. Richardson, J. I., and P. McGillivary. 2001. Post-hatchling loggerhead turtles eat insects in Sargassum community. Mar. Turtle Newsl. 55:2-5.
21. Russell, D. J., and G. H. Balazs. 2000. Identification manual for dietary vegetation of the Hawaiian green turtle Chelonia m ydas. NOAA Tech. Memo. NOAA-TM-NMFS-SWFSC-294.
22. -. 2009. Dietary shifts by green turtles (Chelonia mydas) in the Käne'ohe Bay region of the Hawaiian Islands: A 28-year study. Pac. Sci. 63:181-192.
23. Seminoff, J. A., T. T. Jones, and G. J. Marshall. 2006. Underwater behavior of green turtles monitored with video-time-depth recorders: What's missing from dive profiles? Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 322:269-280. (Pubitemid 44606087)
24. Seminoff, J. A., A. Resendiz, and W. J. Nichols. 2002. Diet of East Pacific green turtles (Chelonia mydas) in the central Gulf of California, Mexico. J. Herpetol. 36:447-453. (Pubitemid 35161848)
25. Thompson, N. B. 1988. The status of loggerhead, Caretta caretta; Kemp's Ridley, Lepi-dochelys kempi; and green, Chelonia mydas, sea turtles in U.S. waters. Mar. Fish. Rev. 50:16-23. (Pubitemid 20423663)
26. Work, T. M. 2000. Sea turtle necropsy m anual for biologists in remote refuges. U.S. Geological Survey National Wildlife Health Center Hawai'i Field Station.