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Habitats: Psammophilous and halophilous grassland; Littoral xerophilous 

 scrub; tropophilous deciduous low and median forest; tropophilous semi- 

 deciduous seasonal forest. 

 Referencess: Medem (1983. Idem). 



Order Testudinea 



Family Cheloniidae 



Chelon±a. ocydAS (Linnaeus, 1758) 

 Distribution: A pelagic marine turtle wich had been reported in coast of 

 Falcon in: Chichiriviche, Golfete de Cuare, Bahia de Morrocoy (in coast 

 front of Municipio Silva) ; near Bajabaroa, near Santa Rita, near Adicora 



(in coast front of Municipio Falcon, Peninsula de Paraguana) ; northern 

 Coro (in coast front of Municipio Miranda, Istmo de Medanos ) ; Caribe Mar 



(in coast front of Municipio Colina) . 

 Habitats: Caribbean Sea. 



Referencess: Prittchard & Trebbau (1984. The turtles of Venezuela. SSAR 

 Contrib. Herpetol., 2:1-414). 



Eretwochelys iznbricata xmbrlcata (Linnaeus, 1758) 

 Distribution: Peninsula de Paraguana (Municipio Falcon?). 

 Habitats: Caribbean Sea. 

 Referencess: Prittchard & Trebbau (1984. Idem). 



Family Dermochelyidae 



Deuaochelys coriacea (Linnaeus, 1758) 

 Distribution: Adicora (Municipio Falcon, Peninsula de Paraguana); near 

 San Juan de Los Cayos (Municipio Silva). 

 Habitats: Caribbean Sea. 

 Referencess: Prittchard & Trebbau (1984. Idem). 



Family Emydidae 



Tra.chewys sciipta. ch±cb±r±v±che (Pritchard & Trebbau, 1984) 

 Distribution: Currently known in the Tocuyo river drainage, near its 

 outlet. Specimens had been reported from: Tivana (Municipio Silva); 

 Embalse de Tacarigua, Laguna de Jatira (both localities within the 

 Municipio Acosta) . 



Habitats: Tropophilous semi -deciduous seasonal forest. 

 Referencess: Prittchard & Trebbau (1984. Idem). 



Family Kinosternidae 



Kinostemon scoxpioides scorpioldes (Linnaeus, 1756) 

 Distribution: This is a uncommon species but with a wide range of 

 geographic distribution within Falcon: Cerro Santa Ana (Municipio Falcon, 

 Peninsula de Paraguana); near Tacuato (Municipio Carirubana, Peninsula de 

 Paraguana); Mene de Mauroa (Municipio Mauroa) ; Urumaco (Municipio 

 Democracia) . 



Habitats: Thorny xerophilous scrub; tropophilous semi-deciduous and 

 deciduous scrub. 



References: Mi j ares-Urrutia & Arends (1992. Herpetol. Review, 23(4) : 122- 

 123); Prittchard & Trebbau (1984. Idem). 



