WoRMS taxon details
Lepidochelys olivacea (Eschscholtz, 1829)
AphiaID: 220293
AphiaID: 220293
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Reptilia (Class) > Testudines (Order) > Cryptodira (Suborder) > Cheloniidae (Family) > Lepidochelys (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Lepidochelys Fitzinger, 1843 | ||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Fischer, W. & G. Bianchi (Eds.) (1984). FAO Species identification sheets For Fisheries Purposes: Western Indian Ocean. FAO, Rome. [details] additional source: Hitchmough, R. (2009). Reptilia (Chordata). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details] | ||||||||||||||||
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| Distribution | Gazi Bay [details] Kenya [details] Kenyan Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Madagascar [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Reunion [details] Tanzania [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (15 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (102 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (123 nucleotides; 112 proteins) To IUCN Red List To Reptile Database To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||
| Note |
Distribution: cosmopolitan in warm water (not N Atlantic) [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:220293 | ||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Uetz, P. (2013). Lepidochelys olivacea (Eschscholtz, 1829). In: Uetz, P. (ed.) (2013) The Reptile Database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=220293 on 2013-05-18 | |||||||||||||||||
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