Eretmochelys imbricate (Linnaeus, 1766)

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.11237725

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E22B87A4-FFA4-6D51-F2BE-FA7BE3F235FB

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Eretmochelys imbricate (Linnaeus, 1766)
status

 

The Hawksbill turtle Eretmochelys imbricate (Linnaeus, 1766)

Family CHELONIIDAE View in CoL View at ENA

IUCN status: Critically Endangered (A2bd ver 3.1)

Recorded so far in Indian waters: Coastal parts of southern Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Gulf of Kutch, Gulf of Mannar, Palk Bay and Lakshadweep Islands.

Registration Number and collection localities: 316 (1421) - Andaman ; 386 (1408) - Atlantic Ocean ; 14705- Bangkok, Thailand ; 1768 (226) - Andaman ; 20924 - Konamie, Little Andaman ; 22488 - Great Nicobor ; 23425 - North West Campbell Bay ; 1422- Venezuela.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Testudines

Order

Cryptodira

Family

Cheloniidae

Genus

Eretmochelys

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