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WoRMS taxon details
Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758) AphiaID: 137205
| 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]
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Vernacular Names | | | Language | Name | | |
Albanian |
breshka e detit |
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Bulgarian |
kаretа |
[details] |
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Bulgarian |
Карета |
[details] |
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Danish |
uægte karette |
[details] |
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Dutch |
dikkopschildpad |
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Dutch |
onechte karetschildpad |
[details] |
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English |
logerhead sea turtle |
[details] |
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English |
loggerhead |
[details] |
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English |
loggerhead sea turtle |
[details] |
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English |
loggerhead turtle |
[details] |
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French |
caouanne |
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French |
tortue Caouanne |
[details] |
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German |
unechte Karettschildkröte |
[details] |
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Hebrew |
צב-ים חום |
[details] |
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Italian |
tartaruga caretta |
[details] |
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Italian |
tartaruga comune |
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Italian |
tartaruga marina |
[details] |
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Lithuanian |
kareta |
[details] |
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Modern Greek (1453-) |
Καρέττα |
[details] |
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Norwegian |
glattkarett |
[details] |
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Norwegian Bokmål |
glattkarett |
[details] |
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Norwegian Nynorsk |
glattkarett |
[details] |
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Polish |
karetta |
[details] |
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Slovenian |
glavata kareta |
[details] |
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Spanish |
tortuga boba |
[details] |
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Turkish |
deniz kaplumbagasi |
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Turkish |
deniz kaplumbağası |
[details] |
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Turkish |
iribasli deniz kamlumbagasi |
[details] |
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Turkish |
iribaşlı deniz kaplumbağası |
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Ukrainian |
Довгоголова морська черепаха |
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Ukrainian |
морська черепаха логгерхед |
[details] |
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Welsh |
crwban môr pendew |
[details] |
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Direct child taxa [show all] | | Subspecies Caretta caretta gigas (Deraniyagala, 1939)
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| 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]
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| 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
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| Notes | |
Distribution: Scotian Shelf to the Gulf of Maine and to Cape Hatteras [details]
Distribution: cosmopolitan warm to temperate waters [details]
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| Image | |
Caretta caretta added on 2011-04-18 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Sean Smith ( ) qualitystatus: not checked |
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| LSID | | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137205 |
Taxonomic Edit history | |
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| | | Citation: Uetz, P. (2013). Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758). 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=137205 on 2013-05-21 |
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