Cheloniidae: taxon details and analytics

Domain
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Family: Cheloniidae
Genus
Species
Scientific Name: Cheloniidae

Summary description from Wikipedia:

Cheloniidae

Cheloniidae is a family of typically large marine turtles that are characterised by their common traits such as, having a flat streamlined wide and rounded shell and almost paddle-like flippers for their forelimbs. They are the only sea turtles to have stronger front limbs than back limbs. The six species that make up this family are the green sea turtle, loggerhead sea turtle, olive ridley sea turtle, hawksbill sea turtle, flatback sea turtle and the Kemp's ridley sea turtle.

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Cheloniidae in languages:

Bokmål: Havskilpaddefamilien
Bulgarian: Морски костенурки
Chinese: 蠵龜科
Czech: karetovití
Danish: Havskildpadder
Dutch: Zeeschildpadden
English: Typical Sea Turtles
English: Marine Turtles
German: Meeresschildkröten
Hebrew: צבים ימיים
Japanese: ウミガメ科
Korean: 바다거북과
Portuguese: Tartarugas-marinhas típicas
Russian: Морские черепахи
Sinhala: දර්ශීය කැස්බෑවන්
Swedish: havssköldpaddor
Thai: เต่าทะเลสามัญ

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