Dermochelys coriacea (Vandelli, 1761)

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.11237721
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E22B87A4-FFA4-6D51-F2BE-FEECE5E63779
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Dermochelys coriacea (Vandelli, 1761)
status

Treatment

The Leatherback turtle Dermochelys coriacea (Vandelli, 1761) View in CoL

Family DERMOCHELYIDAE View in CoL View at ENA

IUCN status: Vulnerable (A2bd ver 3.1)

Recorded so far in Indian waters: Indian Ocean, Gulf of Kutch, Okha coast, Goa coast, Tangasseri reef near Calicut, Gulf of Mannar and Palk Bay.

Registration Number and collection localities: 887 (34a Asiatic Society of Bengal) - Tenasserim, Myanmar.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Testudines
Order	Cryptodira
Family	Dermochelyidae
Genus	Dermochelys

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