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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Dermochelyidae (Leatherback Turtles)
subfamily.......no_subfamily
genus...............Dermochelys (Leatherback turtles)
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- Original Description
- Blainville 1816 : 111
- Common Name
- Leatherback turtles
- Distribution
- All tropical to temperate oceans
- Comments
- Smith and Smith (1973:20) discussed pagination problems in Blainville (1816).
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