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    Species Accepted

    Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758)

    Atlantic Loggerhead Sea Turtle
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Caretta
    IUCNVulnerable

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Adi Deniz Kaplumbağası Turkish
      Atlantic Loggerhead Sea Turtle English
      Avó-de-Aruanã Portuguese
      Cabeça-Grande Portuguese
      Cabeçuda Portuguese
      Caguama Spanish
      Careba Amarela Portuguese
      Careba-Amarela Portuguese
      Careba-Dura Portuguese
      Carebadura Portuguese

      Treatments

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      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Ernst,C.H. and Barbour,R.W. (1989). Turtles of the World. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. - London.
      Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.
      Sonnini de Manoncourt, C.S. and Latreille, P.A. (1802). Histoire Naturelle des Reptiles, avec Figures Dessinees d’Apres Nature. 3. Paris, Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, 332 Pp.
      Dhora, DH. 2008. Fjalor i emrave të kafshëve të Shqipërisë (Emri shkencor – Shqip – Anglisht) / Dictionary of animal names of Albania (Scientific names – Albanian – English). Camaj – Pipa. Shkodër, Albania. pp. 288.
      Myers, T. (2007). Osteological Morphometrics of Australian Chelonioid Turtles. Zoological Science 24: 1012–1027.
      Zavala-Norzagaray, Alan A.; César P. Ley-Quiñónez, Catherine E. Hart, Paula Aguilar-Claussell, S. Hoyt Peckham, and A. Alonso Aguirre. (2017). First Record of Loggerhead Sea Turtles (Caretta caretta) in the Southern Gulf of California, Sinaloa, Mexico. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 16 (1): 106-109.
      Fernandes-Ferreira, Hugo; Sanjay Veiga Mendonça, Rono Lima Cruz, Diva Maria Borges-Nojosa, and Rômulo Romeu Nóbrega Alves. (2013). Hunting of Herpetofauna in Montane, Coastal and Dryland Areas of Northeastern Brazil. Herp. Cons. Biol. 8 (3).
      Jolly, C., Schembri, B., & Macdonald, S. (2023). Field Guide to the Reptiles of the Northern Territory. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne.
      Pollo, César J. (2017). Guide of Amphibians and Reptiles of São Tomé and Príncipe. Smashwords / César J. Pollo, 156 Pp.
      Kirkham, J., Sözbilen, D., Kaska, A., Sezgin, Ç., & Kaska, Y. (2025). A phenological shift to save the boys? Current and projected trends of hatchling sex ratio of the loggerhead turtle Caretta caretta at Dalyan Beach, Türkiye. Journal of Thermal Biology, 104091.

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