WoRMS taxon details

Lepidochelys kempii Garman, 1880

137208  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137208)

accepted
Species
marine
Garman, S. (1880). On certain species of Chelonioidae. <em>Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard.</em> 6: 123-126. [details]   
Distribution Scotian Shelf to the Gulf of Maine and to Cape Hatteras through Florida  
Distribution Scotian Shelf to the Gulf of Maine and to Cape Hatteras through Florida [details]
Uetz, P. (ed.) (2024). The Reptile Database. Lepidochelys kempii Garman, 1880. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137208 on 2024-03-19
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
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2009-06-30 06:57:17Z
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2019-09-16 06:11:02Z
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original description Garman, S. (1880). On certain species of Chelonioidae. <em>Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard.</em> 6: 123-126. [details]   

context source (Bermuda) Sterrer, W. (1986). Marine fauna and flora of Bermuda: a systematic guide to the identification of marine organisms. <em>Wiley-Interscience Publication. Wiley.</em> 742 pp (Nemertini part). [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

basis of record van der Land, J. (2001). Tetrapoda, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>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,</i> 50: pp. 375-376 (look up in IMIS[details]   

additional source O'Boyle, R. 2001. Meeting on turtle by-catch in Canadian Atlantic fisheries, Hayes Boardroom, BIO, 20 March 2001. Canadian Stock Assessment Secretariat 2001/17. 31 p.  [details]   

additional source Pollock, L.W. (1998). A practical guide to the marine animals of northeastern North America. Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick, New Jersey & London. 367 pp., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=i1AmT31cuR4C  [details]   

additional source Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. <em>Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France.</em> 307 pp., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/145561.pdf [details]   

additional source Zug, G. R. 2009. Reptiles (Vertebrata: Reptilia) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1317–1320 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]   

additional source Uetz, P., Freed, P. & Jirí Hošek (eds.). (2021). The Reptile Database. , available online at http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz [details]   

ecology source Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details]  OpenAccess publication 
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From other sources
Distribution Scotian Shelf to the Gulf of Maine and to Cape Hatteras through Florida [details]

Habitat in warm water [details]
LanguageName 
Danish Kemps ridley  [details]
Dutch Kemp's zeeschildpadKemps schildpad  [details]
English Kemp's ridley turtleKemp's ridley sea turtleKemp's ridleyKemp's ridelyAtlantic ridley  [details]
French tortue de Kemp  [details]
German Kemps Schildkröte  [details]
Italian tartaruga di Kemptartaruga bastarda  [details]
Lithuanian atlanto ridlėjaatlantinė ridlėja  [details]
Modern Greek (1453-) Θαλασσοχελώνa του Kemp  [details]
Russian морская черепаха кемпа  [details]
Slovenian atlantska morska želva  [details]
Spanish tortuga golfina  [details]
Turkish orta Amerika nehir kaplumbağası  [details]
Ukrainian Черепаха атлантична РидлеяАтлантична черепаха Рідлі  [details]
Welsh crwban môr pendew Kemp  [details]