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On the landing of a leatherback turtle

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Relation http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/4349/
 
Title On the landing of a leatherback turtle
 
Creator Ebenezer, I P
Joel, J J
 
Subject Marine Turtle
 
Description A female of the least abundant sea turtle in the Indian seas, the leatherback turtle,Dermochelys coriacea Schlegelii locallyknown as 'odavitta amai\ was caught incidentally on 3-8-1991 in a boat seine operated 1 km off Colachel (western coast of Kanyakumarl district, Tamil Nadu) at 15 m depth. The morphometric measurements of the turtle is reported here.
 
Publisher CMFRI, Cochin
 
Date 1992
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/4349/1/Article_12.pdf
Ebenezer, I P and Joel, J J (1992) On the landing of a leatherback turtle. Marine Fisheries Information Service, Technical and Extension Series, 118. p. 20.