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    Species Accepted

    Chelonia mydas (Linnaeus, 1758)

    Atlantic Green Sea Turtle

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      125 results
      Ao umigame Japanese
      Aruanã Portuguese
      Atlantic Green Sea Turtle English
      Black Sea Turtle
      Black Turtle English
      Breshkë e gjelbër Albanian
      Caguama Spanish
      Common Green Sea Turtle English
      Common green turtle English
      Crwbanod Môr Gwyrdd Welsh

      Treatments

      6 results

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      505 results
      Linnaeus, C. (1758) Systema Naturae, per Regna Tria Naturae, secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Tomus I. Editio Decima, Reformata. [10 th Ed.]. Laurentii Salvii, Holmiae [Stockholm], 824 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 542 Published in
      Ernst,C.H. and Barbour,R.W. (1989). Turtles of the World. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. - London.
      Selman, Will, William Stong, Jordan Donini and Willis Sylvest. (2015). Geographic Distribution: Chelonia mydas (green sea turtle). Herpetological Review 46 (3): 381.
      Myers, T. (2007). Osteological Morphometrics of Australian Chelonioid Turtles. Zoological Science 24: 1012–1027.
      Mertens, R. (1952). Die Amphibien und Reptilien von El Salvador. Abh. Senckenb. Naturf. Ges. (Frankfurt) (No. 487): 120 Pp.
      Fernandes-Ferreira, Hugo; Sanjay Veiga Mendonça, Rono Lima Cruz, Diva Maria Borges-Nojosa, and Rômulo Romeu Nóbrega Alves. (2013). Hunting of Herpetofauna in Montane, Coastal and Dryland Areas of Northeastern Brazil. Herp. Cons. Biol. 8 (3).
      Oliveira, Jane C.F.; Rodrigo Castellari Gonzalez; Paulo Passos; Davor Vrcibradic & Carlos Frederico Duarte Rocha. (2020). Non-Avian Reptiles of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: status of knowledge and commented list. Pap. Avulsos Zool. 60: E20206024.
      Padial, J. M. (2006). COMMENTED DISTRIBUTIONAL LIST OF THE REPTILES OF MAURITANIA (WEST AFRICA). Graellsia, 62(2): 159-178.
      Mortimer, Jeanne A.; Rainer G. von Brandis, Anna Liljevik, Roselle Chapman, and John Collie. (2011). Fall and Rise of Nesting Green Turtles (Chelonia mydas) at Aldabra Atoll, Seychelles: Positive Response to Four Decades of Protection (1968–2008). Chelonian Conservation and Biology Dec 2011, Vol. 10, No. 2: 165-176.
      Siddeek, S. M. & R. M. Baldwin. (1996). Assessment of the Oman green turtle (Chelonia mydas) stock using a stage class-matrix model. The Herpetological Journal 6 (1): 1-8.

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