Cheloniidae
sea turtles
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2026-08-05: itis_id 173828 via WoRMS external link
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 keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 3 taxa · Caretta most observed, in the fold below.
Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
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()Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.20, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
How big is it not on record
Not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).
Under it 3 taxa · Caretta most observed
- G Caretta27
- G Chelonia3
- G Lepidochelys2
Lineage 10 ranks · Biota to Chelonioidea
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Natator depressus · source
- Photo · world_lineage · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Cheloniidae” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1371957327
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF
The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.
Cite the release, v2026.10.20
Cite the release, v2026.10.20; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗