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CARETTA CARETTA (Linnaeus). 



1758. Testudo caretta Linnjeus, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., I, p. 197 (type locality, "ad 

 insulasAmericanas");12tlTed.,1766, p. 351.— Wahlbadm, Chelonogr., 



1782 (p. 95) (St. Croix I., West Indies) .—Chelonia c. Gravenhorst, 

 Delic. Mus. Vratislav., I, 1829 (p. 7).— Reinhardt and Luetken, Vid. 

 Meddel. Naturh. Foren. (Copenhagen), L862,p. 286; author's separate 

 p. 134 (Virgin Islands ?). — Gundlach, in Pony's Rep. Fis. -Nat. Cuba, 

 II, No. 5, Apr., 1st;:, p. L05 (Cuba); Anal. Soc. Espan. Hist. Nat., IV, 

 1875, p. 350 (Cuba); Contrib. Erpet. Cubana, 1880, p. 17 (Cuba).— 

 Stahl, Fauna Puerto-Rico, 1882, p. 68 (Porto Rico). 

 1783. lestudo eephalo Schneider, Allg. Naturg. Schildkr., (p. 303).— Chelonia 

 c. Temminck and Schlegel, Fauna Jap. Rept., 1838, pi. iv, figs. 1-3 

 (Surinam). — Chelonia (Caouana) c. Cocteau, in Sagra's Hist. Fis. 

 Pol. Nat. Cuba, IV, Rept., 18:18, p. 31; French ed. (p. 35) (Cuba).— 

 Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Quadr. Ovip. Serp., I, 1788, Syn. meth. 



Fig. 187.— Caretta caretta, young. Florida. Natural size Entire animal from above. No. 14823. 



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1788. Testudo caouana Bonnaterre, Tabl. Encycl. Erpet., 1789, p. 20 (warm 

 countries of old and new continent; Jamaica, Mediterranean). — Che- 

 lonia c. — Dumeril and Bibron, Erpet. Gen., II, 1835, p. 553. — 

 Dimeril, Cat. Meth. Rept, Mus. Paris, I, 1851, p. 25 (Martinique) .— 

 Thalassochelys c. Agassiz, Contr. Nat. Hist. U. S. Amer., I, 1857, p. 

 ::sl (West Indies: Bahamas to Trinidad).— Garman, Bull. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., No. 25, 1884, pp. 287, 300 (tropical Atlantic; Bermudas). 



1814. Caretta namta Rapinesque, Specchio d. Sci. (Palermo), II, no. 9, 1 Sett., 

 1814, p. 66 (new name for Testudo caretta Linnaeus). 



1814. Chelonia caouanna Schweigger, Prodr. Mon. Chel., p. 22 (Sardinia, West 

 Indies). 



1816. Chelonia cavanna Oken, Lehrb. Zool., II, p. 350 (West Indies, Mediter- 

 ranean ) . 



