Hybridization among sea turtle species has been widely reported in the Atlantic Ocean, but
their detection in the Pacific Ocean is limited to just two individual hybrid turtles, in the …

On 5 September 1999 a juvenile sea turtle (BLA-428) was captured near Bahía de los
Angeles, Gulf of California, Mexico. The presence of intermediate morphological …

Abstract The Green Turtle (Chelonia mydas) principally occupies tropical and subtropical
waters, although juveniles are known to occur seasonally in temperate coastal waters …

Reports of hybridization between marine turtle species (family Cheloniidae) have been
difficult to authenticate based solely on morphological evidence. Here we employ molecular …

Marine turtle hybridization is usually sporadic and involves reports of only a few individuals;
however, Brazilian populations have high hybridization rates. Here we investigated the …

In this study, we report for the first time a hybridization between Caretta caretta and Chelonia
mydas in South Korea. On 7th May 2012, a sea turtle (Jeju sea turtle 01, JST01) was found …

The Hawksbill Sea Turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata (Linnaeus 1766), is the most tropical of all
sea turtle species, distributed along the central region of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian …

Hybridization between sea turtle species occurs with particularly high frequency at two
adjacent nesting areas in northeastern Brazil. To understand the outcomes of hybridization …

Three rare geoemydid turtles described from Chinese trade specimens in the early 1990s,
Ocadia glyphistoma, O. philippeni, and Sacalia pseudocellata, are suspected to be hybrids …

The Miami Laboratory of the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) conducted a study to
determine the distribution and abundance of immature sea turtles in the nearshore watcrs Of …