Taxonavigation

Familia: Cheloniidae
Subfamilia: Carettinae
Genus: Caretta
Species: Caretta caretta

Name

• Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758:197)
  • Type locality: unknown
  • Holotype: unknown

Synonymy

• Testudo caretta (Linnaeus 1758:197)
  • Testudo marina (Garsault 1764)
  • Testudo cephalo (Schneider 1783)
  • Testudo nasicornis (Lacépède 1788)
  • Testudo caouana (Lacépède 1788 (nom. subst. pro T. caretta L.))
  • Caretta nasuta Rafinesque 1814
  • Caretta atra Merrem 1820
  • Chelonia multiscutata Kuhl 1820 (?)
  • Testudo corianna (Gray 1831 (ex errore))
  • Testudo caretta (Cuvier 1831:16)
  • Chelonia pelasgorum (Bory 1833)
  • Chelonia Caouana (Duméril & Bibron 1835:552)
  • Caouana elongata (Gray 1844)
  • Thalassochelys corticata (Girard 1858)
  • Chelonia caretta (Dyce 1861:351)
  • Cephalochelys oceanica (Gray 1873 (?))
  • Thalassochelys cauana (Boettger 1880:210)
  • Thalassochelys caretta (Boulenger 1886:425)
  • Thalassiochelys tarapacona (Philippi 1887 (?))
  • Thalassochelys caretta (Boulenger 1889)
  • Chelonia dubia (Bleeker 1889 (nomen nudum))
  • Chelonia polyaspis (Bleeker 1889 (nomen nudum))
  • Thalassochelys controversa (Philippi 1899)
  • Caretta caretta Stejneger 1904
  • Thalassochelys cephalo (Barbour & Cole 1906:148)
  • Caretta caretta caretta Mertens & Müller 1928
  • Caretta caretta Stebbins 1985:105
  • Caretta gigas Deraniyagala 1933 (?)
  • Caretta caretta TTWG 2014:341

References

• Rafinesque, C. S. 1814. Prodrono di erpetologia Siciliana. Specchio Sci. Giom. Encicloped. Sicilia, Palenno, 2(9): 65–67

• Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio Decima, Reformata. Tomus I. Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm. 824 pp. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542 BHL Reference page.  1758. Syst. Nat. ed. 10 1:197.
• Hitchmough, R.A.; Patterson, G.K.; Daugherty, C.H. (compilers) 2009: New Zealand living and recently extinct reptiles. P. 542 in: {{Chapter 24 in ISBN 978-1-877257-72-8}}

• Turtle Taxonomy Working Group (Rhodin, A.G.J., Iverson, J.B., Bour, R., Fritz, U., Georges, A., Shaffer, H.B., and van Dijk, P.P.). 2017. Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status (8th Ed.). (ISBN: 978-1-5323-5026-9). Chelonian Research Monographs 7: 1–292. DOI: 10.3854/crm.7.checklist.atlas.v8.2017. . Full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Caretta caretta Report on ITIS
• IUCN: Caretta caretta  (Endangered)
• Environment Agency of Japan (eds.), 2000. Threatened Wildlife of Japan -Red Data Book 2nd ed.- Reptillia/Amphibia. ISBN4-915959-70-8.
• Listed animal in CITES Appendix I
• Uetz, P. (ed.) (2019). The Reptile Database. Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137205 on 2019-01-28
• Van der Land, J. (2001). Tetrapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 375-376

Vernacular names

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