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Definition of Eretmochelys
1. Noun. Hawksbills.
Generic synonyms: Reptile Genus
Group relationships: Chelonidae, Cheloniidae, Family Chelonidae, Family Cheloniidae
Member holonyms: Eretmochelys Imbricata, Hawkbill, Hawksbill, Hawksbill Turtle, Tortoiseshell Turtle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eretmochelys
Literary usage of Eretmochelys
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles by Leonhard Stejneger, Thomas Barbour (1917)
"Eretmochelys imbricata AGASSIZ Contr. Nat. Hist. US, Vol. 1, 1857, p. 381. ...
Eretmochelys squamosa (GIRARD) Caretta squamosa GIRARD ..."
2. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1905)
"In Eretmochelys it is considerably shortened, and in Dermochelys still more, that
of the latter being .39 of the humerus, Chelydra being .53. ..."
3. Herpetology of Japan and Adjacent Territory by Leonhard Hess Stejneger (1907)
"Leop. Carol., XIV, p. 270 (type, Chelonia imbricata) (not of Rafinesque, 1814).
1843. Eretmochelys FITZINGER, Syst. Kept., p. 30 (same type). 1873. ..."
4. A Manual of the Vertebrate Animals of the Northern United States: Including by David Starr Jordan (1904)
"Tomia of lower jaw not serrate ; shields of carapace imbricated ; scales on cheeks
large, 7 to 10 ; head broad ...... Eretmochelys, 303. bb. ..."
5. Water Reptiles of the Past and Present by Samuel Wendell Williston (1914)
"(Caretta), and the loggerhead (Eretmochelys [Fig. ... Eretmochelys, loggerhead
turtle. (By permission of the New York Zoological Society. ..."
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