CHECK LIST N. AMER. AMPH. REPT. 123 



Caretta (GENUS) 



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



type: nasuta = caretta 



LOGGERHEAD TtTETLES 



Caretta caretta (Liisnsrii) 

 Testvdo caretta LiKwrfi 



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

 Caretta caretta Stejnegeh 



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 (Gahman) 

 BASTARD-TURTLE 



Thalassochelys (Colpockelys) kempii Gaeman 



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

 Caretta kempii Siebenkock 



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. Abyssia., Amph., 1835, p. 7. 



TYPE LOCALITY : Manila Bay, P. I. 



RANGE : Tropical Pacific straggling to the California coast. 



DERMOCHELIDAE {FAMILY) 



Dennochelys (GENUS) 



Blainville, Bull. Soc. PHlom. Paris, 1816, p. Ill bis (= 119) 

 type: coriacea 



Dennochelys coriacea (Linne) 

 Testvdo coriacea Linn£ 

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



Dermochelys coriacea Boulenger 

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



