Chelonia mydas (Linnaeus, 1758)

Kundu, Shantanu, Kumar, Vikas, Murthy, B. H. C. K. & Chandra, Kailash, 2018, Archival sea turtles in National Zoological Collections of Zoological Survey of India, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 118 (1), pp. 39-43 : 42

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.26515/rzsi/v118/i1/2018/122300

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11237723

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E22B87A4-FFA4-6D51-F2BE-FC9AE55531DE

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Chelonia mydas (Linnaeus, 1758)
status

 

The Green Sea turtle Chelonia mydas (Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL

Family CHELONIIDAE View in CoL View at ENA

IUCN status: Endangered (A2bd ver 3.1)

Recorded so far in Indian waters: Gulf of Kutch, Okha coast, coasts of Maharashtra, entire Kerala coast, entire eastern coast of Tamil Nadu, Gulf of Mannar and Palk Bay.

Registration Number and collection localities: 22489- Great Nicobor ; 307 (510) - Yangon, Myanmar ; 308 (508)- Yangon, Myanmar ; 310- Andaman ; 3881- Kyaikkami, Myanmar ; 295- Bay of Bengal ; 18989- South East Satpura Peninsula Channel ; 363 to 366 - Diamond Island, Burma ; 389 (1404)- Atlantic Ocean ; 25988- Port Blair, Andaman ; 1068 to 1072 - Andaman ; 14543 to 14545, 26087 - Great Nicobor ; 1073- No locality information.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Testudines

Order

Cryptodira

Family

Cheloniidae

Genus

Chelonia

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