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Morphological Characteristics Of The Carapace Of The Hawksbill Turtle, Eretmochelys Imbricata, From Cuban Waters, Mari Kobayashi

Gulf and Caribbean Research

Hawksbill turtles, Eretmochelys imbricata (Linnaeus, 1766), from Cuban waters of the Caribbean were analyzed to determine the relationships between straight carapace length (SCL) and either straight carapace width (SCW) or body weight (Wt). The regression equations were SCW = 0.9136(SCL)^0.951 (R² = 0.923, n = 315) and Wt = 4.17 x 10^–4(SCL)^2.68 (R² = 0.798, n = 289), respectively. The regression equations between the first costal width (C1W) and either SCW or Wt were SCW = 3.223(C1W)^0.847 (R² = 0.919, n = 156) and Wt = 1.416 x 10^–2(C1W)^{2.426 …}