Cheloniidae
sea turtles
Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).
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.W CalCOFI holds 32 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1996 and 2019, across 3 taxa under it.R
- 32
- observations
- 32
- records
- 1996–2019
- years
- 1
- datasets
- 3
- species under it
Observed in
Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.
Under it · 3 taxa
- G Caretta27
- G Chelonia3
- G Lepidochelys2
Ways ini
Read from taxa.json of release
v2026.09.11, written at release
by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is
/species/.
Explorerdb-queryi
Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:136999")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:136999'").df()