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Impalement Of Marine Turtles (Reptilia, Chelonia: Cheloniidae And Dermochelyidae) By Billfishes (Osteichthyes, Perciformes: Istiophoridae And Xiphiidae), John G. Frazier, Harry L. Fierstine, Sallie C. Beavers, Federico Achaval, Hiroyuki Suganuma, Robert L. Pitman, Yuichiro Yamaguchi, Carlos Ma. Prigioni
Impalement Of Marine Turtles (Reptilia, Chelonia: Cheloniidae And Dermochelyidae) By Billfishes (Osteichthyes, Perciformes: Istiophoridae And Xiphiidae), John G. Frazier, Harry L. Fierstine, Sallie C. Beavers, Federico Achaval, Hiroyuki Suganuma, Robert L. Pitman, Yuichiro Yamaguchi, Carlos Ma. Prigioni
Biological Sciences
Billfishes have long been known to impale a great variety of objects, but there are only two brief, obscure records of marine turtles being speared. Details are presented on these two, as well as on two other confirmed records; data from two additional unconfirmed records are also presented. In total, three species of marine turtles are known to have been impaled by three species of billfishes; a fourth species of fish and a fourth species turtle are listed in an unconfirmed case. Records come from the eastern and western Pacific as well as the eastern Atlantic. Of the four confirmed …