Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Infraphylum Gnathostomata > Megaclass Tetrapoda > Superclass Reptilia > Order Testudines > Suborder Cryptodira > Superfamily Chelonioidea > Family Cheloniidae > Genus Lepidochelys

Lepidochelys kempii Garman, 1880

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Lepidochelys*	Fitzinger, 1843	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Thalassochelys kempii*	Garman, 1880	objective synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Danish: Kemps ridley sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: Kemps schildpad; Kemp's zeeschildpad sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

English: Atlantic ridley; Kemp's ridely; Kemp's ridley; Kemp's ridley sea turtle; Kemp's ridley turtle sources: Bermuda Biodiversity Database;van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO).;PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points;North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)

French: tortue de Kemp sources: 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.

German: Kemps Schildkröte sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Greek: Θαλασσοχελώνa του Kemp sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Italian: tartaruga bastarda; tartaruga di Kemp sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Lithuanian: atlantinė ridlėja; atlanto ridlėja sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Russian: морская черепаха кемпа sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Slovenian: atlantska morska želva sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Spanish, Castillian: tortuga golfina sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Turkish: orta Amerika nehir kaplumbağası sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Ukrainian: Атлантична черепаха Рідлі; Черепаха атлантична Ридлея sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Welsh: crwban môr pendew Kemp

Literature

original description	Garman, S. (1880). On certain species of Chelonioidae. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard. 6: 123-126.
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
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.
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.
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.
additional source	Uetz, P., Freed, P. & Jirí Hošek (eds.). (2021). The Reptile Database.
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.
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. Scientific Data. 10(1).

Genbank

External Links

Marine Life Information Network - UK

Citation

Uetz, P. (ed.) (2025). The Reptile Database. Lepidochelys kempii Garman, 1880. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137208

Prof. Alain Dubois. Lepidochelys kempii Garman, 1880. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/94dbf6cd-fabd-4560-853b-7164395d2fad