Methods of Developing User-Friendly Keys to Identify Green Sea Turtles (Chelonia mydas L.) from Photographs

Table 1

Definitions of scale characteristics, anatomical terminology, and short hand used.

	Name	Shorthand	Definition
Characteristics	Tick	TK	Where the white boundary surrounding scales extends lineally into a scale
	Spot	SP	Small dark patch of skin, located at PB or on neck
	Dot	DOT	Lighter coloured small “dot” inside a scale
	Fronto parietal extra scale	FPxtra	Subscale located inside FP
	Interparietal meets the frontoparietal scale	IP joins FP	The IP scale meets FP
Anatomical terminology	Anterior	ANT	Towards the head
	Posterior	POS	Towards the tail
	Medial	MED	Towards the centre
	Left	L	Left
	Right	R	Right
	All	ALL	“Tick” passes through entire scale
Scales	Parietal	P
	Interparietal	IP
	Frontoparietal	FP
	Frontal	F
	Prefrontal	PF
	Supraocular	SO
	Temporal	T
	Parietal base	PB	Point where left and right parietal scales join and meet the neck