Sea Turtles and the Sea Turtle Industry of the West Indies, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico, with Annotated Bibliography

Copeia ◽  
1950 ◽  
Vol 1950 (3) ◽  
pp. 243
Author(s):  
Karl P. Schmidt ◽  
Robert M. Ingle ◽  
F. G. Walton Smith
Keyword(s):  
Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Sea Turtles ◽  
Sea Turtle ◽  
Annotated Bibliography ◽  
The West

Sea Turtles and the Turtle Industry of the West Indies, Florida, and the Gulf of Mexico

Copeia ◽  
1974 ◽  
Vol 1974 (3) ◽  
pp. 806 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ross Witham ◽  
Thomas P. Rebel
Keyword(s):  
Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Sea Turtles ◽  
The West

scholarly journals First Spatial Distribution Analysis of Male Sea Turtles in the Southern Gulf of Mexico

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eduardo Cuevas ◽  
Nathan F. Putman ◽  
Abigail Uribe-Martínez ◽  
Melania C. López-Castro ◽  
Vicente Guzmán-Hernández ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
Ocean Circulation ◽  
Adult Male ◽  
Sea Turtles ◽  
Satellite Telemetry ◽  
Sea Turtle ◽  
Distribution Analysis ◽  
Knowledge Gaps ◽  
Southern Gulf Of Mexico

In the Gulf of Mexico, the bulk of published studies for sea turtles have focused on northern (United States) waters where economic resources are centered, with fewer studies in the southern portion of the basin, resulting in significant knowledge gaps in these underrepresented areas. Similarly, publications on adult sea turtles are dominated by research on females that come ashore to nest and can be readily studied (e.g., through the collection of biological samples and the application of satellite-telemetry devices), whereas information on adult male sea turtles is scarce. The goal of this paper is to begin filling these knowledge gaps by synthesizing available data on adult male sea turtles in the southern Gulf of Mexico. We used satellite-telemetry, boat- and drone-based surveys, and stranding records combined with ocean circulation modeling to better understand the spatial distribution of male loggerhead (Caretta caretta), green (Chelonia mydas), hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbricata), and Kemp’s ridley (Lepidochelys kempii) sea turtles in the southern Gulf of Mexico. These spatially explicit analyses will provide context for opportunistically collected data on male sea turtles and better contribute to the management and restoration of sea turtle populations that use the Gulf of Mexico. Moreover, this synthesis can serve as a launching point for directed studies on male sea turtles in this region.

scholarly journals Variation in Species Composition, Size and Fitness of Two Multi-Species Sea Turtle Assemblages Using Different Neritic Habitats

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret M. Lamont ◽  
Darren Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
Species Composition ◽  
Body Condition ◽  
Sea Turtles ◽  
Condition Index ◽  
Sea Turtle ◽  
Body Condition Index ◽  
Turtle Species ◽  
Green Turtles ◽  
Sand Bottom

The neritic environment is rich in resources and as such plays a crucial role as foraging habitat for multi-species marine assemblages, including sea turtles. However, this habitat also experiences a wide array of anthropogenic threats. To prioritize conservation funds, targeting areas that support multi-species assemblages is ideal. This is particularly important in the Gulf of Mexico where restoration actions are currently ongoing following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. To better understand these areas in the Gulf of Mexico, we characterized two multi-species aggregations of sea turtles captured in different neritic habitats. We described species composition and size classes of turtles, and calculated body condition index for 642 individuals of three species captured from 2011 to 2019: 13.6% loggerheads (Caretta caretta), 44.9% Kemp’s ridleys (Lepidochelys kempii) and 41.4% green turtles (Chelonia mydas). Species composition differed between the two sites with more loggerheads captured in seagrass and a greater proportion of green turtles captured in sand bottom. Turtles in sand bottom were smaller and weighed less than those captured in seagrass. Although small and large turtles were captured at both sites, the proportions differed between sites. Body condition index of green turtles was lower in sand habitat than seagrass habitat; there was no difference for Kemp’s ridleys or loggerheads. In general, smaller green turtles had a higher body condition index than larger green turtles. We have identified another habitat type used by juvenile sea turtle species in the northern Gulf of Mexico. In addition, we highlight the importance of habitat selection by immature turtles recruiting from the oceanic to the neritic environment, particularly for green turtles.

scholarly journals Chelonid Alphaherpesvirus 5 Prevalence and First Confirmed Case of Sea Turtle Fibropapillomatosis in Grenada, West Indies

Animals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 1490
Author(s):  
Amanda James ◽  
Annie Page-Karjian ◽  
Kate E. Charles ◽  
Jonnel Edwards ◽  
Christopher R. Gregory ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
West Indies ◽  
Sea Turtles ◽  
Chelonia Mydas ◽  
Sea Turtle ◽  
Dermochelys Coriacea ◽  
Neoplastic Disease ◽  
Extrinsic Factors ◽  
Eretmochelys Imbricata ◽  
Specific Pcr ◽  
The Impact

Chelonid alphaherpesvirus 5 (ChHV5) is strongly associated with fibropapillomatosis, a neoplastic disease of sea turtles that can result in debilitation and mortality. The objectives of this study were to examine green (Chelonia mydas), hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbricata), and leatherback (Dermochelys coriacea) sea turtles in Grenada, West Indies, for fibropapillomatosis and to utilize ChHV5-specific PCR, degenerate herpesvirus PCR, and serology to non-invasively evaluate the prevalence of ChHV5 infection and exposure. One-hundred and sixty-seven turtles examined from 2017 to 2019 demonstrated no external fibropapilloma-like lesions and no amplification of ChHV5 DNA from whole blood or skin biopsies. An ELISA performed on serum detected ChHV5-specific IgY in 18/52 (34.6%) of green turtles tested. In 2020, an adult, female green turtle presented for necropsy from the inshore waters of Grenada with severe emaciation and cutaneous fibropapillomas. Multiple tumors tested positive for ChHV5 by qPCR, providing the first confirmed case of ChHV5-associated fibropapillomatosis in Grenada. These results indicate that active ChHV5 infection is rare, although viral exposure in green sea turtles is relatively high. The impact of fibropapillomatosis in Grenada is suggested to be low at the present time and further studies comparing host genetics and immunologic factors, as well as examination into extrinsic factors that may influence disease, are warranted.

scholarly journals V.—Preliminary Notes on the Late Connection and Separation of the Pacific Ocean and Gulf of Mexico

1895 ◽  
Vol 2 (7) ◽  
pp. 306-308
Author(s):  
J. W. Spencer
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Ocean ◽  
Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Additional Data ◽  
American Continent ◽  
The West ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Pleistocene Period ◽  
The Pacific Ocean ◽  
Geological Magazine

Having recently returned from another season's work in the West Indies and Mexico, where I was collecting additional data bearing upon the stupendous changes of level of land and sea which have lately affected the American continent, I find the review of the “Reconstruction of the Antillean Continent” by Mr. Jukes-Browne in the Geological Magazine, April 1895, p. 173, a few points of which may be further explained at the same time that I furnish some advance notes concerning recently observed phenomena which greatly strengthen the theory of stupendous changes of level in the Pleistocene period. Many months must elapse before I shall be able to complete the studies for publication, so that my papers on Cuba, Jamaica, and Mexico shall be published.

Conversion of Sn to Lg at a continental margin

1975 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 235-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryan L. Isacks ◽  
Christopher Stephens
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
Continental Margin ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Wave Train ◽  
Eastern North America ◽  
Substantial Fraction ◽  
The West ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Period Wave

abstract Examination of the seismic phase Sn from earthquakes in the West Indies as recorded by numerous stations in eastern North America reveals that a substantial fraction of the short-period energy carried by Sn across the suboceanic lithosphere of the Atlantic is fed into the continental crust near the continental margin and travels into North America as the crustal phase Lg. As distance within the continent increases, the Lg part of the short-period wave train becomes predominant, and can be identified at stations in northern Canada as far as 58° from the sources. Several estimates of the average Q for the attenuation of Lg in eastern North America agree upon values in the range of 600 to 1,400. Hydrophone recordings at Bermuda indicate an average Q as high as 4,000 for the attenuation of Sn in the suboceanic lithosphere. Conversion of Sn to Lg also appears to occur near the margin between the continental U.S. and the Gulf of Mexico. In this case, Sn travels northward across the Gulf from earthquakes located near the border between Mexico and Guatemala.

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