Chelonia (genus)
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| Chelonia mydas | |
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| Genus: | Chelonia Brongniart, 1800 |
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| Chelone mydas | |
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Chelonia is a genus of sea turtles that include a only living species, the Chelonia mydas (green sea turtle).[2][3] The type species, C. mydas, is currently endangered. This genus arose in the Late Cretaceous, about 72.2 million years ago.
Taxonomy
[change | change source]History
[change | change source]The genus Chelonia was named by the Alexandre Brongniart, in 1800. The type species, Green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) was originally named as Testudo mydas by Carl Linnaeus in 1758.[4] But a few years later, it was suggested as a junior synonym of C. mydas.[5]
A few years passed and then, in 1832, the first extinct species of the genus Chelonia, C. hoffmani, was named. It is known from a 3D fossil dating from the Maastrichtian.[6] One of the most recent species of the genus is C. gwinneri from the Late Oligocene.[7] However, the most recently known species is C. mydas, the still-living species known as the Green Sea Turtle. It dates back to the Late Pleistocene and is still here.[2]
Species
[change | change source]The genus include 7 extinct species, and they are:
- Chelonia hoffmani
- Chelonia oligocena
- Chelonia parvitecta
- Chelonia harvicensis
- Chelonia cuvieri
- Chelonia girundica
- Chelonia gwinneri
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "Chelonia Brongniart 1800 (green sea turtle)". Fossilworks.
- 1 2 Koolstra, Franciscus Johannes; Küchelmann, Hans Christian; Ҫakirlar, Canan (2019). "Comparative osteology and osteometry of the coracoideum, humerus, and femur of the green turtle (Chelonia mydas) and the loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta)". International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. 29 (5): 683–695. doi:10.1002/oa.2761. ISSN 1099-1212.
- ↑ Al-Mohanna, Salim Y.; Meakins, Robin H. (2000-01-01). "Recent records of marine turtles (Chelonia mydas, Caretta caretta and Eretmochelys imbricata) in Kuwait". Zoology in the Middle East. 20 (1): 33–36. doi:10.1080/09397140.2000.10637809. ISSN 0939-7140.
- ↑ "ITIS - Report: Testudo mydas". www.itis.gov. Retrieved 2025-08-09.
- ↑ "green turtle". www.mcsuk.org. Retrieved 2025-08-09.
- ↑ Chelonia hoffmani Gray 1831. Fossilworks.
- ↑ Chelonia gwinneri Wegner 1917. Fossilworks.