Cheloniidae

Cheloniid sea turtles Temporal range: Paleocene-Holocene, 58–0 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
A green sea turtle, a species of the family Cheloniidae, swimming over coral reefs in Kona, Hawaii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Testudines
Suborder:	Cryptodira
Clade:	Americhelydia
Clade:	Pancheloniidae
Family:	Cheloniidae Oppel, 1811[1]
Type species
Testudo mydas Linnaeus, 1758
Genera
See text.
Synonyms[1]
Chelonii - Oppel 1811 Cheloniadae - Gray 1825 Carettidae - Gray 1825 Mydae - Ritgen 1828 Chelonidae - Bonaparte 1832 Cheloniidae - Cope 1868

The Cheloniidae are a family of sea turtles belonging to the sea turtle superfamily Chelonioidea. It was named by Nicolaus Michael Oppel in 1811.^[1]

Classification

Extant genera

• Subfamily Carettinae
  • Genus Caretta
    • Loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta)^[1]
  • Genus Lepidochelys
    • Kemp's ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys kempii)^[1]
    • Olive ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea)^[1]
• Subfamily Cheloniinae
  • Genus Chelonia
    • Green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas)^[1]
  • Genus Eretmochelys
    • Hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata)^[1]
  • Genus Natator
    • Flatback sea turtle (Natator depressus)^[1] (previously in Chelonia)

Cladogram

Below is a cladogram showing the phylogenetic relationships of living and extinct sea turtles in the family Cheloniidae based on Lynch and Parham (2003)^[2] and Parham and Pyenson (2010).^[3]

Pancheloniidae (=Cheloniidae sensu lato)	†Toxochelys †Mexichelys †Lophochleyinae †Euclastes †Argillochelys †Eochelone †Erquelinnesla †Pacifichelys †Puppigerus  Cheloniidae (sensu stricto)  †Syllomus †Procolpochelys Chelonia mydas Natator depressus Eretmochelys imbricata  Carettini   Lepidochelys  Lepidochelys kempii Lepidochelys olivacea Caretta caretta

References

1. Rhodin 2011, p. 000.172
2. Lynch, S.C.; Parham, J.F. (2003). "The first report of hard-shelled sea turtles (Cheloniidae sensu lato) from the Miocene of California, including a new species (Euclastes hutchisoni) with unusually plesiomorphic characters" (PDF). PaleoBios. 23 (3): 21–35.
3. James F. Parham; Nicholas D. Pyenson (2010). "New Sea Turtle from the Miocene of Peru and the Iterative Evolution of Feeding Ecomorphologies since the Cretaceous". Journal of Paleontology. 84 (2): 231–247. doi:10.1666/09-077R.1.

External links

• Skaphandrus.com Cheloniidae

Bibliography

• Rhodin, Anders G.J.; van Dijk, Peter Paul; Inverson, John B.; Shaffer, H. Bradley; Roger, Bour (2011-12-31). "Turtles of the world, 2011 update: Annotated checklist of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution and conservation status" (PDF). Chelonian Research Monographs. 5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-01-22.