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
This 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 [...]The authors would like to thank the Universidade Federal do Amazonas and the Laboratório de Ictiologia e Ordenamento Pesqueiro do Vale do Rio Madeira, the University of the Azores, and the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior for funding and fostering research.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
