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    Occurrence May 20, 2017, 11:44 AM

    Lepidochelys kempii

    United States of America

    Record

    Dataset
    AMAPPS Southeast Aerial Cruise Spring 2017
    Basis of record
    Human observation

    Taxon

    Scientific name
    Lepidochelys kempii
    Scientific name ID
    urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137208
    Kingdom
    Animalia
    Phylum
    Chordata
    Class
    Reptilia
    Order
    Testudines
    Family
    Cheloniidae
    Genus
    Lepidochelys
    Specific epithet
    kempii
    Rank
    Species
    Vernacular name
    Kemp's Ridley
    Nomenclatural code
    WoRMS LSID
    Taxon remarks
    Taxon recorded as "Kemp's Ridley turtle" by the provider
    Scientific name authorship
    (Garman, 1880)
    Taxonomic status
    valid
    GBIF Backbone Taxonomy

    Lepidochelys kempii Garman, 1880

    KingdomAnimaliaPhylumChordataClassTestudinesFamilyCheloniidaeGenusLepidochelysSpeciesLepidochelys kempii
    Catalogue of Life

    Lepidochelys kempii Garman, 1880

    DomainEukaryotaKingdomAnimaliaPhylumChordataSubphylumVertebrataInfraphylumGnathostomataParvphylumOsteichthyesMegaclassTetrapodaOrderTestudinesSuborderCryptodiraSuperfamilyChelonioideaFamilyCheloniidaeGenusLepidochelysSpeciesLepidochelys kempii
    Date identified
    2017-05-20T11:44:24
    Identification remarks
    Identification Type:Visual sighting

    Location

    Country or area
    United States of America
    Country derived from coordinatesInferred
    Water body
    North Atlantic
    Decimal latitude
    29.969
    Country derived from coordinatesAltered
    29.968640
    original
    Decimal longitude
    -81.248
    Country derived from coordinatesAltered
    -81.247600
    original
    Coordinate uncertainty in metres
    1.11
    Coordinate precision
    0
    Altered
    1.00000000000000008e-05
    original
    Footprint WKT
    POINT(-81.2476 29.96864)
    Georeferenced date
    2017-05-20T11:44:24
    Geodetic datum
    EPSG:4326
    Country derived from coordinates
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    Occurrence

    Occurrence ID
    1860_882
    Catalogue number
    1860_882
    Record number
    1860_882
    Individual count
    1
    Sex
    Occurrence status
    Present
    Associated references
    [{"crossref":{"citeinfo":{"origin":"Lance P. Garrison , Kevin Barry , Laura Aichinger Dias","pubdate":"2017","title_html":"Southern leg of aerial abundance survey during April – May 2017: Southeast Fisheries Science Center","title":"Southern leg of aerial abundance survey during April – May 2017: Southeast Fisheries Science Center","serinfo":{"sername":"2017 Annual Report of a Comprehensive Assessment of Marine Mammal, Marine Turtle, and Seabird Abundance and Spatial Distribution in US waters of the Western North Atlantic Ocean – AMAPPS II","issue":"16-25"},"onlink":"https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/22419"}}},{"crossref":{"citeinfo":{"origin":"Halpin, P.N., A.J. Read, E. Fujioka, B.D. Best, B. Donnelly, L.J. Hazen, C. Kot, K. Urian, E. LaBrecque, A. Dimatteo, J. Cleary, C. Good, L.B. Crowder, and K.D. Hyrenbach","pubdate":"2009","title_html":"OBIS-SEAMAP: The world data center for marine mammal, sea bird, and sea turtle distributions","title":"OBIS-SEAMAP: The world data center for marine mammal, sea bird, and sea turtle distributions","serinfo":{"sername":"Oceanography","issue":"22(2):104-115"},"onlink":"http://www.tos.org/oceanography/article/obis-seamap-the-world-data-center-for-marine-mammal-sea-bird-and-sea-turtle"}}}]
    Occurrence remarks
    Visual; plane
    Event date
    2017-05-20T11:44:24
    Event time
    11:44:24
    Verbatim event date
    2017-05-20 11:44:24

    Other

    Record licence
    CC BY-NC 4.0
    Altered
    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
    original
    Institution code
    SEFSC
    Owner institution code
    NOAA;NMFS;SEFSC
    Collection code
    1860
    Dataset ID
    • 1860
    Dataset name
    • AMAPPS Southeast Aerial Cruise Spring 2017
    Bibliographic citation
    [{"crossref":{"citeinfo":{"origin":"Lance P. Garrison , Kevin Barry , Laura Aichinger Dias","pubdate":"2017","title_html":"Southern leg of aerial abundance survey during April – May 2017: Southeast Fisheries Science Center","title":"Southern leg of aerial abundance survey during April – May 2017: Southeast Fisheries Science Center","serinfo":{"sername":"2017 Annual Report of a Comprehensive Assessment of Marine Mammal, Marine Turtle, and Seabird Abundance and Spatial Distribution in US waters of the Western North Atlantic Ocean – AMAPPS II","issue":"16-25"},"onlink":"https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/22419"}}},{"crossref":{"citeinfo":{"origin":"Halpin, P.N., A.J. Read, E. Fujioka, B.D. Best, B. Donnelly, L.J. Hazen, C. Kot, K. Urian, E. LaBrecque, A. Dimatteo, J. Cleary, C. Good, L.B. Crowder, and K.D. Hyrenbach","pubdate":"2009","title_html":"OBIS-SEAMAP: The world data center for marine mammal, sea bird, and sea turtle distributions","title":"OBIS-SEAMAP: The world data center for marine mammal, sea bird, and sea turtle distributions","serinfo":{"sername":"Oceanography","issue":"22(2):104-115"},"onlink":"http://www.tos.org/oceanography/article/obis-seamap-the-world-data-center-for-marine-mammal-sea-bird-and-sea-turtle"}}}]Halpin, P.N., A.J. Read, E. Fujioka, B.D. Best, B. Donnelly, L.J. Hazen, C. Kot, K. Urian, E. LaBrecque, A. Dimatteo, J. Cleary, C. Good, L.B. Crowder, and K.D. Hyrenbach. 2009. OBIS-SEAMAP: The world data center for marine mammal, sea bird, and sea turtle distributions. Oceanography 22(2):104-115
    Identifier
    1860_882
    Modified
    2018-06-27T18:19:08
    Altered
    2018-06-27 18:19:08
    original
    Type
    Event
    GBIF ID
    3086560748

    Citation

    Please use this citation in publications
    Dias, L. and L. Garrison. 2018. AMAPPS Southeast Aerial Cruise Spring 2017. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1860) on yyyy-mm-dd. https://doi.org/10.15468/4tztvx accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-08-03. https://gbif.org/occurrence/3086560748
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    Dataset
    AMAPPS Southeast Aerial Cruise Spring 2017
    Publisher
    OBIS-SEAMAP
    Last crawled
    2025-07-03T11:23:51.889