Turtle
(Reguidit frae Testudines)
| Turtles | |
|---|---|
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| Green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kinrick: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Testudinata |
| Order: | Testudines Batsch, 1788 [2] |
| Subgroups[1] | |
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Cryptodira | |
| Diversity | |
| 14 extant families wi ca. 300 species | |
| |
| blue: sea turtles, black: land turtles | |
Turtles are reptiles o the order Testudines (or Chelonii[3]) chairacterised bi a special banir or cartilaginous shell developed frae thair ribs an actin as a shield.[4]
References
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- Joyce, Walter G. (2007). "Phylogenetic relationships of Mesozoic turtles" (PDF). Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. 48 (1): 3–102. doi:10.3374/0079-032x(2007)48[3:promt]2.0.co;2. Archived frae the original (PDF) on 6 Juin 2013. Retrieved 14 Februar 2017.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Dubois, A.; Bour, R. (2010). "The distinction between family-series and class-series nomina in zoological nomenclature, with emphasis on the nomina created by Batsch (1788, 1789) and on the higher nomenclature of turtles" (PDF). Bonn zoological Bulletin. 57 (2): 149–171. ISSN 0006-7172.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Hutchinson, J. (1996). "Introduction to Testudines: The Turtles". University of California Museum of Paleontology.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
