scholarly journals Neglecting low season nest protection exacerbates female biased sea turtle hatchling production through the loss of male producing nests

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine E. Hart ◽  
Luis Angel Tello-Sahagun ◽  
F. Alberto Abreu-Grobois ◽  
Alan A. Zavala-Norzagaray ◽  
Marc Girondot ◽  
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AbstractIn the eastern Pacific, peak olive ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea) nesting occurs during the warmest months which coincide with the rainy season, yet as nesting takes place year-round, the small proportion of the nests laid during dry-low season are exposed to contrasting environmental conditions. Most of the studies on Pacific coast sea turtles have estimated sex ratios produced during the rainy-high season when the majority of conservation activities take place. Thus, dry-low season nests have on the whole been overlooked. Here we compared sex ratios and hatchling fitness for offspring produced during the dry and rainy seasons during 2015. We found that protected olive ridley clutches incubated during the dry-low season were exposed to lower temperatures, yielded higher hatchling success, produced 100% male offspring and larger, heavier hatchlings with better locomotor abilities. Our results highlight the critical value of monitoring and protecting sea turtle nests beyond the peak season (when nests can be protected more efficiently) to include low season nests, albeit at much lower densities, but which by yielding higher proportions of males and with greater locomotor capacities may be the key to population viability and adaptation to anthropogenic climate change.

2007 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Santoro ◽  
J. Morales

AbstractThree species of digeneans including 1 Gorgoderidae (Plesiochorus cymbiformis) from the urinary bladder, 1 Plagiorchiidae (Enodiotrema megachondrus) from the duodenum, and 1 Pachypsolidae (Pachypsolus irroratus) from the stomach were recovered from 2 of 3 olive ridley turtles (Lepidochelys olivacea) found stranded along the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. All trematodes represent new locality records. Histopathological changes associated with eggs of cardiovascular flukes (Digenea, Spirorchiidae) were described from the lungs, spleen, and intestine of a single turtle.


Phytotaxa ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 233 (3) ◽  
pp. 236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roksana Majewska ◽  
J. P. Kociolek ◽  
Evan W. Thomas ◽  
Mario De Stefano ◽  
Mario Santoro ◽  
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Marine mammals such as whales and dolphins have been known for a long time to host a very specific epizoic community on their skin. Less known however is the presence of a similar community on the carapaces of sea turtles. The present study is the first describing new taxa inhabiting sea turtle carapaces. Samples, collected from nesting olive ridley sea turtles (Lepidochelys olivacea) on Ostional Beach (Costa Rica), were studied using light and scanning electron microscopy. Two unknown small-celled gomphonemoid taxa were analysed in more detail and are described as two new genera, closely related to other gomphonemoid genera with septate girdle bands, such as Tripterion, Cuneolus and Gomphoseptatum. Chelonicola Majewska, De Stefano & Van de Vijver gen. nov. has a flat valve face, uniseriate striae composed of more than three areolae, simple external raphe endings, internally a siliceous flap over the proximal raphe endings and lives on mucilaginous stalks. Poulinea Majewska, De Stefano & Van de Vijver gen. nov. has at least one concave valve, uniseriate striae composed of only two elongated areolae, external distal raphe endings covered by thickened siliceous flaps and lives attached to the substrate by a mucilaginous pad. Chelonicola costaricensis Majewska, De Stefano & Van de Vijver sp. nov. and Poulinea lepidochelicola Majewska, De Stefano & Van de Vijver sp. nov. can be separated based on stria structure, girdle structure composed of more than 10 copulae, raphe structure and general valve outline. A cladistics analysis of putative members of the Rhoicospheniaceae indicates that the family is polyphyletic. Chelonicola and Poulinea are sister taxa, and form a monophyletic group with Cuneolus and Tripterion, but are not closely related to Rhoicosphenia, or other genera previously assigned to this family. Features used to help diagnose the family such as symmetry and presence of septa and pseudosepta are homoplastic across the raphid diatom tree of life.


Author(s):  
REM Oliveira ◽  
FLN Attademo ◽  
JS Galvincio ◽  
ACB Freire ◽  
AS Silva ◽  
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The standardisation of protocols and discussion of therapeutic procedures in the rehabilitation of turtles affected by oil spills are necessary to optimise the recovery time and increase the chances of survival of these animals. This study aimed at reporting the processes adopted for the stabilisation, decontamination, rehabilitation and release of an oiled olive ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea), rescued alive on September 23, 2019, at Santa Rita Beach, Extremoz municipality, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. Its entire body was covered by oil. At first, the animal was mechanically dry cleaned using a gauze soaked in mineral oil in the keratinised regions (carapace and plastron) and a gauze soaked in vegetable oil was used on the oral, nasal, ocular, and cloacal mucous membranes. The second stage of the oil removal consisted of washing the animal with heated pressurised water (39 °C) and a neutral detergent using a soft foam sponge. The animal received treatment with antitoxins, antibiotics, analgesics, gastrointestinal protectors, and fluid therapy. After 7 days of treatment, the blood count showed that all the parameters were within the normal range. The oil cleaning process and the therapeutic protocol used in the rehabilitation of the olive ridley sea turtle were efficient.


2014 ◽  
Vol 58 (10-11-12) ◽  
pp. 733-741 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patsy Gómez-Picos ◽  
Itzel Sifuentes-Romero ◽  
Horacio Merchant-Larios ◽  
Rubí Hernández-Cornejo ◽  
Verónica Díaz-Hernández ◽  
...  

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Brenes Chaves ◽  
Alexis Berrocal ◽  
Ana I. Meneses ◽  
Carlos Jiménez Sánchez ◽  
Carlos M. Orrego Vásquez

Sea turtle fibropapillomatosis is an emerging disease characterized by a proliferation of cutaneous papillomas, fibromas, and fibropapillomas and occasional visceral fibromas. This paper aims to contribute tothe etiology of fibropapillomatosis in olive ridley sea turtles (Lepidochelys olivacea) nesting in OstionalNational Wildlife Refuge. Twenty six olive ridley turtles with cutaneous fibropapilloma were sampled and24 healthy olive ridley turtles served as controls. Biopsies were taken of the cutaneous tumors in sick seaturtles, as well as skin biopsies from control subjects, and blood samples were collected from all turtles.Tumorous samples and skin samples were microscopically analyzed in order to differentiate the histologicalfactors resulting from the disease pathogenesis, where the main histological findings were papillaryepidermal hyperplasia, orthokeratotic hyperkeratosis, spirorchid-like eggs in the dermis, and eosinophilic cytoplasmic inclusion. Hematology and blood chemistry studies were conducted on blood samples, andMCHC, heterophils, lymphocytes, monocytes, AST, total protein, albumin and globulin values were significantlydifferent between healthy turtles and turtles with tumors. A PCR test was also conducted in thesamples to determine the presence of herpesvirus and papillomavirus as possible etiologic agents, wherethe papilomavirus was absent in all the samples, while the herpesvirus was present in 69.23% of the tumors,this being the most probable etiological agent of fibropapillomatosis.La fibropapilomatosis de la tortuga marina es una enfermedad emergente caracterizada por múltiples papilomas, fibromas y fibropapilomas cutáneos, así como ocasionales fibromas viscerales. El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo contribuir a la etiología de la fibropapilomatosis en la tortuga lora (Lepidochelys olivacea) que anida en el Refugio Nacional de Vida Silvestre Ostional. Se muestrearon 26 tortugas lora con fibropapilomas cutáneos y 24 tortugas lora sanas que sirvieron de control. Se tomaron biopsias excisionales de los tumores cutáneos de las tortugas enfermas y biopsias de piel de las tortugas control, además se recolectaron muestras de sangre de todas las tortugas. Las muestras tumorales y de piel se analizaron microscópicamente para diferenciar los factores histológicos que resultan de la patogénesis de la enfermedad, donde los hallazgos histopatológicos principales en los fibropapilomas fueron: crecimiento papiliforme, hiperqueratosis ortoqueratótica, huevos de parásitos similares a espiróquidos en la capa dérmica e inclusión eosinofílica citoplasmática. A las muestras de sangre se les realizó análisis hematológico y de química sanguínea, donde los valores de CHCM, heterófilos, linfocitos, monocitos, AST, proteínas totales, albúmina y globulinas resultaron significativamente diferentes entre las tortugas sanas y las tortugas con tumores. Se realizó PCR a las muestras para determinar la presencia de genoma de herpesvirus y papilomavirus como posibles agentes etiológicos, donde el papilomavirus estuvo ausente en la totalidad de las muestras, mientras el virus Herpes se presentó en el 69.23% de los tumores posicionándose como el posible agente etiológico de la enfermedad.


2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 153
Author(s):  
Il-Hun Kim ◽  
Chang-Ho Yi ◽  
Jeong-Hyun Lee ◽  
Daesik Park ◽  
In-Young Cho ◽  
...  

2013 ◽  
Vol 50 (5) ◽  
pp. 381-383 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomokazu Fukuda ◽  
Masafumi Katayama ◽  
Kodzue Kinoshita ◽  
Takashi Kasugai ◽  
Hitoshi Okamoto ◽  
...  

Heredity ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 89 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
W E J Hoekert ◽  
H Neuféglise ◽  
A D Schouten ◽  
S B J Menken

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