A carcass of an olive ridley turtle, Lepidochelysolivacea (Eschscholtz, 1829) was found washedashore on Cherai beach on 12.01.16. It was in abadly decomposed state, with only the head, frontflippers and part of the carapace intact, making itdifficult to take morphometric measurements

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Mar. Fish. Infor. Serv., T & E Ser., No. 227, 201624Olive Ridley turtle washed ashoreK. M. Sreekumar, Aju K. Raju,  K. A. Divya, M.Sethulakshmi, Thobias P. Antony and Miriam Paul SreeramICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, KochiA carcass of an olive ridley turtle, Lepidochelysolivacea (Eschscholtz, 1829) was found washedashore on Cherai beach on 12.01.16. It was in abadly decomposed state, with only the head, frontflippers and part of the carapace intact, making itdifficult to take morphometric measurements.Enquiries with local fishers indicated that a smallnumber of turtled had laid eggs on this beach 12-15years ago but there is no evidence of nesting herefor the past 10 years.Carcass of Olive Ridley turtleNote on a stranded Indo-Pacific humpback dolphinP. K. Asokan and K. VinodCalicut Research Centre of ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, KozhikodeA dead specimen of the Indo-Pacific humpbackdolphin, Sousa chinensis was found washed ashore atKonad beach (110 16' N;  750 45' E), Kozhikode on 21stFebruary, 2016.  The specimen was an adult femaleand measured 243 cm in Total Length (TL), havingcharacteristic 36 and 34 pairs of teeth in the upperand lower jaws respectively.  The morphometriccharacters were recorded (Table 1).  An injury wasfound on the ventral region close to the vent butcause of its death could not be ascertained.Table 1. Morphometric measurements of the strandedIndo-Pacific humpback dolphinMorphometrics Measurement(cm)Snout to melon 25Snout to angle of mouth 36Snout to blowhole 44Snout to centre of eye 42Snout to anterior insertion of dorsal fin 95Snout to tip of dorsal fin 140Snout to fluke notch 239Snout to anterior insertion of flipper 53Snout to centre of genital aperture 162Snout to centre of anus 173Flipper length 32Flipper width (maximum) 44Fluke width 67Dorsal fin height 6Girth (axillary) 140Girth (at the level oforigin of dorsal fin) 144Girth (at level of anus) 90Fig. 1. Beached Sousa chinensis

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