Vol. 5 No. 1 (2010)
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First record of Kemp’s ridley sea turtle, <i>Lepidochelys kempii</i> (Garman, 1880) (Cheloniidae), from the Italian waters (Mediterranean Sea)

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  • Gianni Insacco,
  • Filippo Spadola
Gianni Insacco
1Centro Regionale Recupero Fauna Selvatica e Tartarughe Marine - Fondo Siciliano per la Natura e Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, via Generale Girlando 2, I-97013 Comiso (RG), Italy
Filippo Spadola
2Facoltà di Medicina Veterinaria di Messina, Dipartimento di Scienze Sperimentali e Biotecnologie Applicate, Polo Universitario SS. Annunziata I, I-98128, Messina, Italy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.13128/Acta_Herpetol-8540

Published 2010-07-01

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Insacco, G., & Spadola, F. (2010). First record of Kemp’s ridley sea turtle, <i>Lepidochelys kempii</i> (Garman, 1880) (Cheloniidae), from the Italian waters (Mediterranean Sea). Acta Herpetologica, 5(1), 113–117. https://doi.org/10.13128/Acta_Herpetol-8540
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Abstract

In this work the authors describe the first case of Lepidochelys kempii stranding (Garman, 1880) happened in Italian waters (Sicily, Messina) and considered to be the fifth in the entire Mediterranean Sea. A young individual was recovered with a longline hook in its oesophageal.
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