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Biology 482 - Baja California Sur Conservation Biology - Part 3 of 4: Sea turtle research assistance at Bahia Magdalena, January 4-12, 2019

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-	yellow-crowned night heron	-
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-	The large barnacle and the smaller ones attached to it are tentatively the acorn barnacle, Chelonibia testudinaria, which were removed from near the eye of one of the green sea turtles BIOL 482 students were helping sea turtle experts to study and tag, before release. Zardus and Hadfield (2004; see link below) found that the small barnacles in between the plates of the large acorn barnacle of this species are exclusively males, but were unable to demonstrate whether these dwarf males stayed small or else changed to females when they grew larger, like the dwarf males of a barnacle species in the same genus are known to do. Several authors have also reported this species on various crustaceans or horseshoe crabs, so that this species is apparently not as exclusively found on sea turtles as once thought. - Zardus & Hadfield, 2004	-
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