Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758) 
AphiaID: 137205

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Chordata > Vertebrata > Gnathostomata > Tetrapoda > Reptilia > Testudines > Cryptodira > Cheloniidae > Caretta

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Caretta Rafinesque, 1814
Sources		original description: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details] basis of record: van der Land, J. (2001). Tetrapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). 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, 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]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp. (look up in IMIS) [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] 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: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
Vernacular Names		Language    Name   Albanian breshka e detit  [details] Bulgarian kаretа  [details] Bulgarian Карета  [details] Danish uægte karette  [details] Dutch dikkopschildpad  [details] Dutch onechte karetschildpad  [details] English logerhead sea turtle  [details] English loggerhead  [details] English loggerhead sea turtle  [details] English loggerhead turtle  [details] French caouanne  [details] French tortue Caouanne  [details] German unechte Karettschildkröte  [details] Hebrew צב-ים חום  [details] Italian tartaruga caretta  [details] Italian tartaruga comune  [details] Italian tartaruga marina  [details] Lithuanian kareta  [details] Modern Greek (1453-) Καρέττα  [details] Norwegian glattkarett  [details] Norwegian Bokmål glattkarett  [details] Norwegian Nynorsk glattkarett  [details] Polish karetta  [details] Slovenian glavata kareta  [details] Spanish tortuga boba  [details] Turkish deniz kaplumbagasi  [details] Turkish deniz kaplumbağası  [details] Turkish iribasli deniz kamlumbagasi  [details] Turkish iribaşlı deniz kaplumbağası  [details] Ukrainian Довгоголова морська черепаха  [details] Ukrainian морська черепаха логгерхед  [details] Welsh crwban môr pendew  [details]
Environment		marine
Distribution		Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Gazi Bay [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] Kenyan Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Mediterranean Sea [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] North West Atlantic [details] Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Western Indian Ocean [details] Wimereux (not certain) [details]
Links		Marine Life Information Network - UK To Barcode of Life (13 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (200 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FAO Species fact sheets To GenBank (272 nucleotides; 150 proteins) To IUCN Red List To PESI To Reptile Database To ITIS
Image		Caretta caretta added on 2011-04-18 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Sean Smith () qualitystatus: not checked
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137205
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2004-12-21 15:54:05Z   created   van der Land, Jacob 2009-06-30 06:57:17Z   changed   Uetz, Peter
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		Citation: Uetz, P. (2013). Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758). In: Uetz, P. (ed.) (2013) The Reptile Database. Accessed through: VLIZ Belgian Marine Species Consortium (2010) The Belgian Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/berms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137205 on 2013-05-25
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