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DERMOCHELYS CORIACEA " (Linnaeus). 



1766. Testudo coriacea Linn.kis, Syst. Nat., 12th ed., I, p. 350 (Mediterranean).— 

 Sphargisc. Gray, Synops. Rept., I, 1831, p. 51 (Mediterranean; coast 

 of England).— Dumeril and Bibron, Erpet, Gen., II, 1835, p. 560 

 (Mediterranean and Atlantic). — Gosse, Nat. Soj. Jamaica, 1851, p. 306 

 (Jamaica).— Agassiz, Contr. Nat. Hist. U. S. Amer., I, 1857, p. 373 

 (Bahamas, West Indies). — Reinhardt- and Luetken, Vid. Meddel. 

 Naturh. Foren. (Copenhagen), 1862 (1863), p. 284; author's separate 

 p. 132 (Virgin Islands). — Gundlacii, in Poey's Repert. Fisico-Nat. 

 Cuba, II, No. 5, Apr., 1867, p. 106 (Playa del Quemada, Cuba); Anal. 



Fig. 175.— Dermochelys cokiacea, young. Natural size. Entire animal from above. No. 19796, 



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Soc. Espafi. Hist. Nat., IV, 1875, p. 351 (Cuba); X, 1881, p. 307 

 (Porto Rico); Contr. Erpet. Cubana, 1880, p. 18 (Cuba).— Bello y 

 Espinosa, Zool. Garten, XII, 1871, p. 351 (Porto Rico).— Stahl, Fauna 

 Puerto-Rico, 1882, p. 68 (Dorado, Porto Rico).— Garman, Bull. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus. No. 25, 1881, pp. 287, 303 (Bermudas; tropical and temperate 

 portions of the Atlantic). — Dermochelys coriacea Boulenger, Cat. Chel. 

 Brit. Mus., 1889, p. 10 (part). 

 1788. Testudo lyra Lacepede, Hist, Nat, Quadr. Ovip. Serp., I, Syn. meth.— Bon- 

 naterre, Tabl. Encycl. Erpet., 1789, p. 22, pi. iv, fig. 2. 



" Latin =leathery. 



