Two stranded -like sea turtles were rescued from the Thai Andaman Sea coastline by veterinarians of the Phuket Marine Biological Center (PMBC), one in May of 2019 and another in July of 2021. They were first identified as olive ridley turtles (), as the external appearance of both turtles was closer to that species than the other four species found in the Thai Andaman Sea. In fact, when carefully examined, an unusual pattern of the lateral scutes on each turtle was observed, specifically symmetric 5/5 and asymmetric 5/6, both of which are considered rare for and had never been reported in the Thai Andaman Sea.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Dugongs are marine mammals with a crescent-shaped tail fluke and a concave trailing margin that belong to the family ., They are distributed widely in the warm coastal waters of the Indo-Pacific region. Importantly, the population of dugongs has decreased over the past decades as they have been classified as rare marine mammals.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Aim: The Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin, , and the pantropical spotted dolphin, , are protected marine mammals in Thailand; however, knowledge regarding the populations of both species in Thai seas is minimal. We aimed to reveal the genetic diversity and population structure of two species, , and , based on inter-simple sequence repeats (ISSRs).
Materials And Methods: Samples of stranded (n = 30) and (n = 23) found along Thai Andaman Sea coasts from 1998 to 2018 were used in this study.
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June 2022
Cetaceans inhabit oceans throughout the world. Four specific odontocetes, namely Cuvier's beaked whale (), Indo Pacific finless porpoise (), pygmy sperm whale (), and dwarf sperm whale (), have occasionally been found stranded along Thailand's coastal waters (the Andaman Sea and the Gulf of Thailand). Although shared haplotypes of each species for many locations have been found, and some species have revealed genetic structure through haplotype networks, cetaceans in Thai waters have never been investigated in terms of comparing haplotypes to those that have existed before.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin () is a vulnerable marine mammal species that inhabits shallow, coastal waters from Southeast China, southward throughout Southeast Asia, and westward around the Bay of Bengal to eastern India. Polymorphic microsatellites are useful for elucidating ecological and population genetics-related questions. Here, 18 new polymorphic microsatellites were developed from .
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