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Superfamily · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Chelonioidea

sea turtles

WoRMS 987094key worms:987094
Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC BY-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Santanachelys gaffneyi

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).

Photograph of Chelonioidea
Photo · Iván Cumpián · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Sea turtles, sometimes called marine turtles, are reptiles of the order Testudines and of the suborder Cryptodira. The seven existing species of sea turtles are the flatback, green, hawksbill, leatherback, loggerhead, Kemp's ridley, and olive ridley.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 · 1 taxon

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:987094")