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. 2016 Mar 8;6(8):2378–2389. doi: 10.1002/ece3.2034

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© 2016 The Authors. Ecology and Evolution published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

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Three in‐water, anecdotal observations of early life‐history hawksbills. Small juvenile hawksbill turtles seen at the ocean surface (A) 13 km off Hawaii Island at 2450 m depth, (B) 47 km off Hawaii Island at 4600 m depth near the Alika Knoll (credit: D. Webster/Cascadia Research). Both turtle lengths estimated at 28 cm SCL. Notice the plentiful debris field floating near the turtle. (C) Small juvenile hawksbill seen foraging in the shallow lagoon of Rose Atoll, a remote oceanic coral pinnacle located 260 km east of the Tutuila Island, American Samoa (credit: K. Van Houtan/NOAA). This turtle was later hand‐captured and measured at 27.4 cm SCL. Remora fish, Pelanes crabs, and Lepas barnacles (only C) were documented on these turtles, which are common pelagic epibionts. Scale bar in all images is 5 cm.