Cheloniidae

Cheloniid sea turtles; Temporal range: Paleocene-Holocene, 58–0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	A green sea turtle, a species of the family Cheloniidae, swimming over coral reefs in Kona, Hawaii
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Testudines
Suborder:	Cryptodira
Superfamily:	Chelonioidea
Family:	Cheloniidae; Oppel, 1811
Type species
	Testudo mydas; Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms
	Chelonii - Oppel 1811; Cheloniadae - Gray 1825; Carettidae - Gray 1825; Mydae - Ritgen 1828; Chelonidae - Bonaparte 1832; Cheloniidae - Cope 1868;

The Cheloniidae are a family of sea turtles belonging to the sea turtle superfamily Chelonioidea. It was named by Nicolaus Michael Oppel in 1811.^[1]

Classification

Extant genera

Subfamily Carettinae
- Genus Caretta
  - Loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta)^[1]
- Genus Lepidochelys
  - Kemp's ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys kempii)^[1]
  - Olive ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea)^[1]

Subfamily Cheloniinae
- Genus Chelonia
  - Green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas)^[1]
- Genus Eretmochelys
  - Hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata)^[1]
- Genus Natator
  - Flatback sea turtle (Natator depressus)^[1] (previously in Chelonia)

Cladogram

Below is a cladogram showing the phylogenetic relationships of living and extinct sea turtles in the family Cheloniidae based on Lynch and Parham (2003)^[2] and Parham and Pyenson (2010).^[3]

Pancheloniidae (=Cheloniidae sensu lato)

†Toxochelys

†Mexichelys

†Lophochleyinae

†Euclastes

†Argillochelys

†Eochelone

	†Erquelinnesla

	†Pacifichelys

†Puppigerus

Cheloniidae (sensu stricto)

†Syllomus

†Procolpochelys

	Chelonia mydas

	Natator depressus

Eretmochelys imbricata

Carettini

Lepidochelys

	Lepidochelys kempii

	Lepidochelys olivacea

Caretta caretta

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Rhodin 2011, p. 000.172
^ Lynch, S.C.; Parham, J.F. (2003). "The first report of hard-shelled sea turtles (Cheloniidae sensu lato) from the Miocene of California, including a new species (Euclastes hutchisoni) with unusually plesiomorphic characters" (PDF). PaleoBios. 23 (3): 21–35.
^ James F. Parham; Nicholas D. Pyenson (2010). "New Sea Turtle from the Miocene of Peru and the Iterative Evolution of Feeding Ecomorphologies since the Cretaceous". Journal of Paleontology. 84 (2): 231–247. doi:10.1666/09-077R.1.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

External links

Skaphandrus.com Cheloniidae

Bibliography

Rhodin, Anders G.J.; van Dijk, Peter Paul; Inverson, John B.; Shaffer, H. Bradley; Roger, Bour (2011-12-31). "Turtles of the world, 2011 update: Annotated checklist of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution and conservation status". Chelonian Research Monographs. 5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-01-22.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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[Rhodin11-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Rhodin 2011, p. 000.172

[LP03-2] Lynch, S.C.; Parham, J.F. (2003). "The first report of hard-shelled sea turtles (Cheloniidae sensu lato) from the Miocene of California, including a new species (Euclastes hutchisoni) with unusually plesiomorphic characters" (PDF). PaleoBios. 23 (3): 21–35.

[Parham&Pyenson-3] James F. Parham; Nicholas D. Pyenson (2010). "New Sea Turtle from the Miocene of Peru and the Iterative Evolution of Feeding Ecomorphologies since the Cretaceous". Journal of Paleontology. 84 (2): 231–247. doi:10.1666/09-077R.1.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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