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Praia Grande of Príncipe Island (Gulf of Guinea): an important nesting beach fo...
Loureiro, Nuno de Santos; Carvalho, Hualton; Rodrigues, ZeferinoThe beach Praia Grande, on Príncipe Island (Gulf of Guinea, West Africa), hosts a green turtle rookery. A total of 219 clutches with an average size of 111 eggs were laid by the 88 females that nested there during the 2007-2008 nesting season. During the nesting season 2009-2010, 315 clutches, averaging 104 eggs, were laid by the 112 females that were recorded. During both seasons, nesting began in early Septem...
Presence of fibropapillomatosis in green turtles Chelonia mydas at Príncipe Isl...
Loureiro, Nuno de Santos; Matos, DamiãoFibropapillomatosis is a transmissible and life threatening disease associated with one or more herpesviruses that are afflicting sea turtles worldwide (Herbst 1994). First documented on green turtles Chelonia mydas (Quackenbush et al. 1998), since the 1990's it has been found on other species, like hawksbills Eretmochelys imbricata (D’Amato & Moraes-Neto 2000; Williams & Bunkley-Williams 1996), olive ridleys L...
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