EMYSystem Text Only Family Page: Cheloniidae
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Cheloniidae (Marine Turtles)
subfamily.......no_subfamily
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Caretta
Chelonia
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- Original Description
- Oppel 1811 : 4
- Original name
- Chelonii
- Common Name
- Marine Turtles
- Distribution
- Worldwide in temperate and tropical oceans
- Comments
- Taxonomic and literature reviews appear in Smith and Smith (1979; Mexican taxa), Cogger et al. (1983; Australian taxa), Pritchard and Trebbau (1984; Venezuelan taxa), Zangerl et al. (1988), and Limpus et al. (1988). Frair (1979, 1982a) discussed phylogenetic relationships based on serology. Bour and Dubois (1984c:81) suggested that Oppel (1811:4) first used the family name Cheloniidae.
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