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Alternate Title
Status of Turtles on the Mississippi Coast
Document Type
Short Communication
Abstract
Sea turtles have declined in numbers and federal agencies have become concerned with the numbers drowned in trawls by commercial shrimpers. Records are given of freshwater turtles and of the gopher tortoise in low-salinity waters. These include the Florida cooter Pseudemys floridana, the snapping turtle Chelydra serpentina, the alligator snapper Macroclemys temmincki, and the gopher Gopherus polyphemus. The diamondback terrapin Malaclemys terrapin pileata is common in brackish waters of Alabama and Mississippi. All sea turtles of the western Atlantic Ocean may be expected in Mississippi waters except for the Pacific ridley Lepidochelys olivacea, indigenous in northern South America in the Atlantic.
First Page
89
Last Page
92
DOI Link
Recommended Citation
Gunter, G.
1981.
Status of Turtles on the Mississippi Coast.
Gulf Research Reports
7
(1):
89-92.
Retrieved from https://aquila.usm.edu/gcr/vol7/iss1/14
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18785/grr.0701.14
