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Monotypic taxon: Genus Chelonia Brongniart, 1800 (reptile)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation A. Brongniart, 1800
Original name Brongniart, A. 1800b. Bull. Sci. Soc. philom. 2 (36): 89.

Types

Type ofChelonia (Subclass) Brongniart, 1800 Ref: E.R. Lankester, 1877: 452. [inferred]
Type ofCheloniidae (Family) Oppel, 1811 Ref: B. Grzimek et al. (eds.), 1973 (1971): 588. [inferred]
Type ofCheloniinae (Subfamily) Oppel, 1811 Ref: Turtle Taxonomy Working Group [van Dijk, P.P., Iverson, J.B., Rhodin, A.G.J., Shaffer, H.B. & Bour, R.], 2014: 343. [inferred]
TypeChelonia mydas (Linnaeus, 1758) Ref: P. Uetz et al. (eds.), 2016: 16 Aug 2016.

Synonyms

Synonymous nameChelona (Genus) Fleming, 1828 Ref: PBDB: 21 Jul 2020.
Synonymous nameEuchelys (Genus) Girard, 1858 Ref: PBDB: 21 Jul 2020.
Synonymous nameMegemys (Genus) Gistl, 1848 Ref: PBDB: 21 Jul 2020.
Synonymous nameMydasea (Genus) Gervais, 1843 Ref: PBDB: 21 Jul 2020.

Vernacular Names (Dutch)

Full namesoepschildpadden Ref: B. Grzimek (ed.), 1973-1975
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