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

Caretta Rafinesque, 1814

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758)

Literature

original description

Rafinesque, C. S. (1814). Prodromo di erpetologica Sicilians. Specchio delle Scienze o giornale encidopedicodi Sicilia. 2(9): 65-67.

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

Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

Genbank

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Citation

Uetz, P. (ed.) (2025). The Reptile Database. Caretta Rafinesque, 1814. 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:137066

Prof. Alain Dubois. Caretta Rafinesque, 1814. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/aa649f44-fe95-45f4-b306-eb0872c47c93

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine

Importance

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GUID

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137066
urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:214779

Last modified

2005-12-27 by Prof. Alain Dubois & by Edward Vanden Berghe

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