Respiratory Physiology of Diving in the Sea Turtle
- 5 August 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Ichthyology & Herpetology
- Vol. 1985 (3) , 671-679
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1444761
Abstract
The sea turtle is habitually submarine, surfacing only briefly to breathe. Aquatic respiration is negligible in the loggerhead (Caretta caretta), accounting for...This publication has 18 references indexed in Scilit:
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