Chelonia mydas

Domain: Eukaryota • Regnum: Animalia • Phylum: Chordata • Subphylum: Vertebrata • Infraphylum: Gnathostomata • Superclassis: Tetrapoda • Classis: Reptilia • Subclassis: Anapsida • Ordo: Testudines • Subordo: Cryptodira • Superfamilia: Chelonioidea • Familia: Cheloniidae • Genus: Chelonia • Species: Chelonia mydas (Linnaeus, 1758)

 Vernacular names

• English: Green Sea Turtle
• български: Зелена морска костенурка
• čeština: Kareta obrovská
• Deutsch: Suppenschildkröte
• Esperanto: Kelonio
• suomi: Liemikilpikonna
• français: Tortue verte
• עברית: צב ים ירוק
• hrvatski: Golema želva
• magyar: Levesteknős
• 日本語: アオウミガメ
• lietuvių: Žaliasis vėžlys
• Nederlands: Soepschildpad
• polski: Żółw zielony
• português: Tartaruga-verde
• русский: Зелёная черепаха
• ไทย: เต่าตนุ
• Türkçe: Yeşil kaplumbağa
• українська: Зелена черепаха
• 中文: 绿海龟

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Wikispecies has an entry on:

Chelonia mydas

• Included subspecies (for ReptileDB):

C. m. mydas, C. m. agassizi, C. m. japonica

• Note: For ITIS & NCBI & ReptileDB & WoRMS, this is currently the only extant (living) species in the genus Chelonia (Retrieved on 17 September 2012).

• Reptarium.cz Reptile Database link: Chelonia mydas Linnaeus, 1758

• ITIS link: Chelonia mydas (Linnaeus, 1758) (mirror)

• World Register of Marine Species link: Chelonia mydas (Linnaeus, 1758)

• IUCN: Chelonia mydas (Linnaeus, 1758) (old web site) (Endangered)

Pictures

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  Basking on Punaluu Beach, Hawaii

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File:Chelonia mydas 08-04-1.jpg File:A diving chelonia mydas.jpg

Illustrations

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  Cuvier, 1834

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  hunting

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  Green Turtle on Wharf at Key West, 1914

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