Facial photos of sea turtles (Arvoredo Island, Brazil, 2005-2008)

This fileset contains 297 photos (.jpg) of sea turtle facial profiles (left and right side). It is particularly useful for those developing softwares for sea turtle photo-id.

It was used for the first time in Reisser J, Proietti M, Kinas P, Sazima I (2008) Photographic identification of sea turtles: method description and validation, with an estimation of tag loss. Endang Species Res 5:73-82 doi: 10.3354/esr00113

Photos are named as "capture number _ facial side photographed" (e.g. 132_r corresponds to the photo of the right facial profile of an individual captured in the capture event number 132).

Some individuals were captured more than once so they have more than 1 capture event associated with them. It means that recaptured individuals were photographed more than once. This is particularly useful for sea turtle photo-ID software validation.

This fileset has the following matches of sea turtle facial profiles (photos of the same side of the same individual):

1. 1_r & 80_r

2. 3_l & 15_l

3. 4_l & 78_l

4. 8_r & 35_r

5. 17_r & 118_r

6. 17_l & 118_l

7. 22_r & 77_r

8. 22_l & 77_l

9. 25_l & 122_l

10. 25_r & 122_r

11. 31_l & 60_l & 94_l

12. 31_r & 60_r & 94_r

13. 37_l & 59_l & 112_l & 126_l

14. 37_r & 59_r & 112_r & 126_r

15. 39_l & 44_l

16. 39_r & 44_r

17. 48_l & 119_l

18. 48_r & 119_r

19. 81_l & 125_l

20. 81_r & 125_r

21. 82_l & 99_l

22. 111_l & 124_l

23. 111_r & 124_r

24. 115_l & 127_l

25. 115_r & 127_r

26. 62_l & 97_l

27. 62_r & 97_r

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