Table 17 in SYNOPSIS OF THE BIOLOGICAL DATA ON THE LOGGERHEAD SEA TURTLE CARETTA CARETTA (LINNAEUS 1758)

Table 17. Incubation periods (days)for loggerhead sea turtle nests. (The figures are for nests as deposited by the female unless otherwise indicated.)
LocationMeanRangeTVReferenceAtlanticSouth Carolina55.049-6255Caldwell (1959)North Carolina60.556-6519Ferris (1986)Georgia62.650- 76918Kraemer (1979)Florida365.5—20Worth and Smith (1976)Florida55.0——Davis and Whiting (1977)Floridab69.063-75—Ehrhart (1979c)Florida060.5—15Demmer (1981)Florida53.149- 5867Witherington (1986)IndianTongaland67.0—4McAllister et al. (1965)Tongaland67.355-8010Hughes (1972)Tongaland056.853-5910Hughes (1975a)Oman d51.2—18Ross (1979)Oman e50.2—15Ross (1979)MediterraneanGreece50.7—3Margaritoulis (1985)Greece57.549-696Sutherland (1985)
a Artificially incubated by unknown method.
bClutches incubated within a building near the nesting beach.
c Clutches incubated in a protected hatchery on a nesting beach.
dData for 1977.
e Data for 1978.