Caretta kempi Garman on Welsh Coast

Abstract

ON January 3, a Mexican or Kemp's loggerhead turtle, Caretta kempi Garman, was found at high-water mark on Kenfig Dunes in Glamorgan. It was dead, but the body was in a good state of preservation, though the shields of the carapace were mostly missing. The weight was 2,420 gm., the carapace being 244 mm. long and 224 mm. at its maximum width; the length of the plastron was 199 mm. Two other specimens of this species, one slightly larger and one slightly smaller, are in the collection of this Department, both taken alive; one near Freshwater West on the Pembrokeshire coast, in December 1930, the other at Mochras Island at the north end of Cardigan Bay, in November of the same year.