A healed propeller wound on a wild loggerhead turtle, Caretta caretta (Testudines, Cheloniidae), occupied by a pelagic crab, Planes minutus, in the Azores Islands, Portugal

Anjos, Marcelo R.Pelegrini, Larissa S.Barreiros, João B. V.Barcelos, Luis M. D.Barreiros, João P.2021-10-142021-10-142021-07Anjos, M.R., Pelegrini, L.S., Barreiros, J.B., Barcelos, L.M.D. & Barreiros, J.P. (2021). A healed propeller wound on a wild loggerhead turtle, Caretta caretta (Testudines, Cheloniidae), occupied by a pelagic crab, Planes minutus, in the Azores Islands, Portugal. "Herpetology Notes", 14, 981-984.http://hdl.handle.net/10400.3/6097This paper details and discusses a helix-induced injury to the right anterior shell of a seemingly healthy subadult loggerhead turtle. On 10 September 2018, two of the authors (JBB and JPB) located a loggerhead sea turtle resting on the rocky reef bottom at a depth of about 10 m while freediving off the southeastern coast of Terceira Island, Azores [...]engCaretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758)Tartaruga MarinhaMarine TurtlesAzoresA healed propeller wound on a wild loggerhead turtle, Caretta caretta (Testudines, Cheloniidae), occupied by a pelagic crab, Planes minutus, in the Azores Islands, Portugaljournal article2071-5773