Sea turtle tracks at nesting site
Description:
Category hierarchy: Animals | Reproduction | Courtship & Mating
Description: A morning photo depicts evidence of a sea turtle nesting the previous night (from the sea, left; return to sea, right). The protective stakes mark a nest from an earlier week as part of a county research program that marks and records every eighth nest.
Capture device: Camera: Fuji FinePix S3100
Capture details: Lens: Fujinon 6x optical zoom lens; Effective pixels 4.0 million
Original date: 20080825
Locality: Latitude: 2.769480000000000e+001; Longitude: -8.054380000000001e+001
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- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Opisthokonta (opisthokonts)
- Metazoa (Animal)
- Bilateria
- Deuterostomia (deuterostomes)
- Chordata (Chordates)
- Vertebrata (vertebrates)
- Gnathostomata (jawed fish)
- Osteichthyes
- Sarcopterygii (Lobe-finned fishes)
- Tetrapoda (terrestrial vertebrates)
- Amniota (amniotes)
- Reptilia (Reptiles)
- Diapsida (diapsid)
- Testudinata (turtles)
- Cryptodira
- Cheloniidae (sea turtles)
- Caretta
- Caretta caretta (Loggerhead Turtle)
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- Randolph Femmer /life.nbii.gov
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