CHECK LIST N. AMER. AMPH. KEPT. 123 



Caretta (GENUS) 



RAFINESQUE, Specchio Sci. (Palermo), Vol. 2, No. 9, 1 Sept., 1814, p. 66 

 TYPE: nasuta = caretta 



LOGGERHEAD TURTLES 



Caretta caretta (LINNE) 

 Testudo caretta LINNE 



Syst. Nat., Ed. 10, Vol. 1, 1758, p. 197. 

 Caretta caretta STEJNEGER 



Ann. Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1902 (1904), p. 715. 



TYPE LOCALITY: "About the American Islands." 

 RANGE : Atlantic Ocean, breeding as far north as Beaufort, North 

 Carolina; north occasionally to coast of Massachusetts. 



Caretta kempii (GARMAN) 

 BASTARD-TURTLE 



Thalassochelys (Colpochelys) kempii GARMAN 



Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Vol. 6, 1880, p. 123. 

 Caretta kempii SIEBENROCK 



Zool. Jahrb. Suppl., Vol. 10, Pt. 3, 1909, p. 551. 

 TYPE LOCALITY: Gulf of Mexico. 



RANGE : Northeastern part of Gulf of Mexico north to Cape Hat- 

 teras, and accidentally to the coast of Massachusetts. 



Caretta olivacea (ESCHSCHOLTZ) 

 Chelonia olivacea ESCHSCHOLTZ 



Zool. Atlas, Pt. 1, 1829, p. 2, pi. 3. 

 Caretta olivacea RUEPPELL 



Neue Wirbelth. Abyssin., Amph., 1835, p. 7. 



TYPE LOCALITY: Manila Bay, P. I. 



RANGE : Tropical Pacific straggling to the California coast. 



DERMOCHELIDAE (FAMILY) 



Dermochelys (GENUS) 



BLAINVILLE, Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris, 1816, p. Ill bis (= 119) 

 TYPE: coriacea 



Dermochelys coriacea (LINNE) 

 Testudo coriacea LINNE 



Syst. Nat., Ed. 12, Vol. 1, 1766, p. 350. 

 Dermochelys coriacea BOULENGER 



Cat. Chel. Brit. Mus., 1889, p. 10. 



