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As has l)eoM stated alxnc, the ocncric term ('///y'tt"v,'iis employed })y 

 Rafinesque as early as ISU for the log-jrerhead tui-tl<". Its subsequent 

 use by Ritgen, Gray, and others is consequently unw anunted, and the 

 next one in time, Fitzinger's hrctniochelys, must t>e accepted as the 

 genus name foi' the lia\vksl>ills. 



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Figs. 194-1".)7.— Eketm<k:iielys imiskkata. 194, shell from liulow. .J natural size. l'.i-"), topoi head; 

 196, side of head; 197, right fore flipper, dorsal view. | natural size. Xo. 2.')(il."), U.S.X.M. 



ERETMOCHELYS IMBRICATA ' iLinnaeus). 



1766. Testudo imbrical'i Linx.els, Syst. Xat., 12th ed., I. p. :^50 ( Aiiifrican seas).— 

 Cheloniai. Schweigger, Prodr. Mon. Chel., 1814, p. 21.— Dumeril and 

 BiBRox, Erpet. Gen., II, 1835, p. 5-47, pi. xxiii, figs. 2-26 (Habana, 



« Latin = imbricated, overlapping like shingles. 



