Table 26 in SYNOPSIS OF THE BIOLOGICAL DATA ON THE LOGGERHEAD SEA TURTLE CARETTA CARETTA (LINNAEUS 1758)

Table 26. Growth rates and estimated age at maturity of loggerhead sea turtles. C = captive turtles; W wild turtles. Some values were derived from Part 3 of the Appendix in Zug et al. (1986).
c/wEstimated age at maturity (yOEstimated growth rate (cm/yr)Referencec—16.17Parker (1926) Hildebrand and Hatsel (1927)c—11.03Hildebrand and Hatsel (1927) Caldwell et al. (1955) Caldwell (1962c)c—8.21c6-712.8-15.0c812.5Caldwell (1962c) Uchida (1967)c—17.68, 11.14Kaufmann (1972)c—18.29Rebel (1974) Witham and Futch (1977)c—13.64w30 +0.625-1.375Witham and Futch (1977) Limpus (1979) a0.0-0.26w10-155.90 (1.8-10.1)Mendonca (1981) Bjorndal et al. (1983) Frazer and Schwartz (1984)w—5.70c16-20—w12-30—Frazer and Schwartz (1984) Frazer and Ehrhart (1985)w>270.2, 1.0 bLimpus (1985)w15-30—Frazer (1986)w13-152.1-19.8 CZug et al. (1986)
¿ Range for subadults (first line) and adults (second line.)
bMean for adults (first value) and immatures (second value).
cExcludes outliers and those with excessively high age estimates.