EMYSystem Text Only Genus Page: Chelonia
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Cheloniidae (Marine Turtles)
subfamily.......no_subfamily
genus...............Chelonia (Green Turtles)
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- Original Description
- Brongniart 1800 : 89
- Common Name
- Green Turtles
- Distribution
- All tropical and subtropical seas
- Comments
- Stejneger (1907:509) noted that Chelonia as originally published by Brongniart (1800:89) is a nomen nudum. Smith and Smith (1979:259-260) and Pritchard and Trebbau (1984:279) agreed, but suggested that Latreille (1801:22) used Chelonia as a family and not a genus name. Reviewed by Hirth (1980a), Cogger et al. (1983), and Pritchard and Trebbau (1984).
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