Dermochelys coriacea

Dermochelys coriacea est maximus omnium testudinum exstantium et quartus a gravissimis reptilibus hodiernis, post tria crocodilia.^[3]^[4] Hoc animal est sola species sui generis^[5] et sola exstans familiae Dermochelyidarum species. Facile ab aliis chelonioideis hodiernis distinguitur quia exosceleto osseo caret; potius, eius carapax a cuti crassa et carne oleosa tegitur.

Distributio geographica

Animalia — Chordata

Classis : Reptilia
Ordo : Testudines
Subordo : Cryptodira
Superfamilia : Chelonioidea
Familia : Dermochelyidae
Subfamilia : Dermochelyinae
Genus : Dermochelys
Blainville, 1816^[1]
Species : Dermochelys coriacea
(Vandelli, 1761)^[1]

Palaeontologia

Holocaenum 0.012–0 m.a.:

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Conservationis status

VU

Damno obiecta (IUCN 3.1)^[2]

Synonyma

Formula:Collapsible list

Territorium

Notae

[1]
Rhodin, A. G. J.; van Dijk, P. P.; Inverson, J. B.; Shaffer, H. B. (14 Decembris 2010). Turtles of the world, 2010 update: Annotated checklist of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution and conservation status. 5. p. 000.xx. ISBN 978-0965354097 .
[2]
IUCN (vide situs scientificos).
[3]
"WWF - Leatherback turtle". Marine Turtles. World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). 16 Februarii 2007 .
[4]
"The Leatherback Turtle (Dermochelys coriacea)." Turtles.org, 24 Ianuarii 2004, accessum 30 Augusti 2020.
[5]
Dermochelys.

Bibliographia

Böhme, Wolfgang. 2004. "Testudines (Chelonia), Schildkröten." In Spezielle Zoologie: Vol. 2: Wirbel- oder Schädeltiere, ed. Wilfried Westheide et Reinhard Rieger, 345–52. Gustav Fischer Verlag. ISBN 3-8274-0900-4.
Das, Indraneil. 2001. Die Schildkröten des Indischen Subkontinents. Francofurti: Edition Chimaira. ISBN 3-930612-35-6.
Wood, Roger Conant, Jonnie Johnson-Gove, Eugene S. Gaffney, et Kevin F. Maley.1996. "Evolution and phylogeny of the leatherback turtles (Dermochelyidae), with descriptions of new fossil taxa." Chelonian Conservation and Biology 2: 266–86.