flatback

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However, perhaps most distinctly the flatback is the only marine turtle to call one nation home.

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  • New and improved -- and more comprehensive version: how about running the images of an F-style, a flatback and a bowlback on top and the words "do they look hawaiian?" underneath. —  Mandolin Cafe News
  • I've been inspired by hearing it played by someone. those neighbors and friends here in italy who've seen my f-4 mandolin invariably ask: "what is it?" everyone knows the neaopolitan-style mandolin - correct recognition of the flatback runs about half and half. if it's not already considered as such, i wonder if the f-style can assume its rightful place in the smithsonian as a genuinely american instrument? —  Mandolin Cafe News
  • Little-known flatback sea turtle receives extra attention at symposium in Australia —  Mongabay.com News
  • (02 / 17 / 2009) Beginning today in Brisbane, Australia, the 29th annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation will feature the flatback sea turtle, native to Australia and probably the least-studied of the marine turtle species. —  Mongabay.com News
  • For a hundred years biologists debated as to how closely the flatback marine turtle was related to the green sea turtle. —  Mongabay.com News
 

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