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Marine Turtle Newsletter 22:9-10, © 1982

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ANON. Construction, installation, arid handling procedure for the National Marine Fisheries Service's Sea Turtle Excluder Device. NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SEFC-71, U.S. Department of Commerce. J. W. Watson, P.O. Drawer 1207, Pascagoula, MS 39567, USA.

BYLES, R. 1982. Radio-tracking of a Kemp's ridley off the Virginia coast. Report submitted to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Endangered Species Office, pp. 1-21. R. Byles, VA. Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, VA 23062 U.S.A.

DIZON, A. E. and BALAZS, G. H. 1982. Radio telemetry of Hawaiian green turtles at their breeding colony. Marine Fisheries Review 44:13-20. A. E. Dizon, National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA, Honolulu, HT 96812 USA.

DODD, C. K. Jr. 1982. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service-Nesting of the green turtle, Chelonia mydas, in Florida - A hopeful trend? ASB Bull. 29-58. C. K. Dodd Jr., Office of Endangered Species, Washington, D.C. 20240 U.S.A.

EHRHART, L. M. 1979. Reproductive characteristics and management potential of the sea turtle rookery at Canaveral National Seashore, Florida. pp. 397-399 in R. M. Linn, ed. Proc. First Conference on Scientific Research in the National Parks, 9-12 November, 1976, New Orleans, La, U.S.A. NPS Trans. and Proc. Ser. No. 5. L. M. Ehrhart, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Central Florida, Box 25000, Orlando, Florida 32816 U.S.A.

FRAZER, N. A. 1982. The survival rate of juvenile loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) necessary to maintain a stable population size. ASB Bulletin 29. N.B. Frazer, Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602 USA.

FRETEY, J. 1981. Note sur les traumas observes chez des Tortues luths adultes Dermochelys coriacea (Vandelli) (Restudines, Dermochelyidae). Rev. fr. Aquariol. 8:119-128. J. Fretey, Laboratoire de Zoologie, Museum nationals d'Histoire naturelle, 57 rue Cuvier, 75005 Paris, France.

HURTADO, M. 1981. The ban on the exportation of turtle skin from Ecuador (also available in Spanish). Boletin Informativo, Instituto Nacional de Pesca, 2, 6-10 (also in Spanish in the same issue). M. Hurtado, Institute Nacional de Pesca, Casilla 59 18, Guayaquil, Ecuador.

HURTADO, M. 1981. Marine turtles recapture in Eduadorian waters. Boletin Informativo, Instituto Nacional de Pesca, 2, 18-23 (also in Spanish in the same issue). M. Hurtado, address as above.

HURTADO, M., CORRALES, G. and MUENTES, K. 1981. The participation of Ecuadorian university students in the marine turtle programme. Boletin Informativo, Instituto Nacional de Pesca, 2, 30-35 (also in Spanish in the same issue). M. Hurtado, address as above.

KINGSMILL, S. F. and MROSOVSKY, N. 1982. Sea-finding behaviour of loggerhead hatchlings: the time course of transient circling following unilateral and asynchronous bilateral blindfolding. Brain Behav. Evol. 20.29-42. W. Mrosovsky, Department of Zoology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont. Canada M5S 1A1

MORRFALE, S., T., RUIZ, G. J., SPOTIIA, J. R. and STANDORA, E. A. 1982. Temperature-dependent sex determination: current practices threaten conservation of sea turtles. Science 216:1245-1247. S. J. Morreale, Department of Biology, State University College of Buffalo, Buffalo, New York 14222 USA. MROSOVSKY, N. 1982. Sex ratio bias in hatchling sea turtles from artificially incubated eggs. Biol. Conserv. 23:309-314. N. Mrosovsky, Department of Zoology, university of Toronto, Toronto, Ont. Canada M5S 1A1.

NUITJA, I. N. S. and UCHIDA, I. 1982. Preliminary studies on the growth and food consumption of the juvenile loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta L.) in captivity. Aquaculture, 27: 157-160. I. N. S. Nuitja, Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Minamidae, Nakano-ku, Tokyo 164, Japan.

OWENS, D. W., GRASSMAN, M. A. and HENDRICKSON, J. R. 1982. The imprinting hypothesis and sea turtle reproduction. Tierpetologica 38:124-135. D.W. Owens, M. A. Grassman and J. R. Hendrickson, Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843 USA.

STONEBURNER, D. L. and EHRHART, L. M. 1981. Observation on Caretta c. caretta: a record interesting migration in the Atlantic. Herp Review 12: 6. D.L. Stoneburner, National Park Service Cooperative Research Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602 U.S.A.

THAYER, G. W., ENGEL, D. W. and BJORNDAL, K. A. 1982. Evidence for short-circuiting of the detritus cycle of seagrass beds by the green turtle, Chelonia mydas L. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 62:173-183. G. W. Thayer and D. W. Engel, National Marine Fisheries Service, Southeast Fisheries Center, Beaufort Laboratory, Beaufort, NC 28516 USA and K.A. Bjorndal, Department of Zoology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA.

THOMPSON, R. K. 1981. Nesting of the green sea turtle, Chelonia mydas (Linnaeus) 1758, in Mauritius. Revue Agricole et Sucriere de l'Ile Maurice 60:125-130. R. K. Thompson, Camarons Hatchery Co. Ltd., Union Vale, Mauritius, Indian Ocean.

TIMKO, R. E. and DEBLANC, D. 1981. Radio tracking juvenile marine turtles. Marine Fisheries Review 43:20-24. R. E. Timko, Mississippi Engineering Project, National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA, NSTL Station, MS 39529, USA.

WOOD, E. and WOOD, J. R. 1982. Sex ratios in captive reared green turtles, Chelonia mydas. Copeia, 482-485. E. Wood and J. R. Wood, Cayman Turtle Farm Ltd., Box 645, Grand Cayman, British West Indies.

YNTEMA, C. L. and MROSOVSKY, N. 1982. Critical periods and pivotal temperatures for sexual differentiation in loggerhead sea turtles. Can. J. Zool. 60:1012-1016. N. Mrosovsky, Department of Zoology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont. Canada M5S 1A1.