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Leatherback sea turtle

Index Leatherback sea turtle

The leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea), sometimes called the lute turtle, leathery turtle or simply the luth, is the largest of all living turtles and the heaviest non-crocodilian reptile, reaching lengths of up to and weights of. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 208 relations: Alaska, Algae, Allometry, Amphipoda, Anatomical terms of location, Animal migration tracking, Anthomyiidae, Aphrodisiac, Arctic Circle, Atlantic Ocean, Banks Peninsula, Beaked whale, Beta-keratin, Bird of prey, Black vulture, Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources, British Columbia, Brown adipose tissue, Bycatch, California, Calliphoridae, Cape Agulhas, Cape of Good Hope, Carapace, Caribbean, Carnivore, Carrion, Cephalopod, Charadriiformes, Chelonian Conservation and Biology, CITES, Cladistics, Cleavage (embryo), Cloning, Clutch (eggs), Cnidaria, Coati, Columbia River, Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada, Coral reef, Cosmopolitan distribution, Countercurrent exchange, Countershading, Coyote, Crab, Cretaceous, Critically Endangered, Crocodilia, Crustacean, Darkling beetle, ... Expand index (158 more) »

  2. Critically endangered fauna of Australia
  3. Dermochelyidae
  4. Reptiles described in 1761
  5. Reptiles of Canada
  6. Reptiles of Japan
  7. Reptiles of New Zealand
  8. Reptiles of Oceania
  9. Reptiles of the Solomon Islands
  10. Sea turtles
  11. Turtles of Africa
  12. Turtles of Asia
  13. Turtles of Australia
  14. Turtles of Brazil
  15. Turtles of Europe
  16. Vulnerable biota of Europe

Alaska

Alaska is a non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America.

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Algae

Algae (alga) are any of a large and diverse group of photosynthetic, eukaryotic organisms.

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Allometry

Allometry (Ancient Greek "other", "measurement") is the study of the relationship of body size to shape, anatomy, physiology and behaviour, first outlined by Otto Snell in 1892, by D'Arcy Thompson in 1917 in On Growth and Form and by Julian Huxley in 1932.

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Amphipoda

Amphipoda is an order of malacostracan crustaceans with no carapace and generally with laterally compressed bodies.

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Anatomical terms of location

Standard anatomical terms of location are used to unambiguously describe the anatomy of animals, including humans.

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Animal migration tracking

Animal migration tracking is used in wildlife biology, conservation biology, ecology, and wildlife management to study animals' behavior in the wild.

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Anthomyiidae

The Anthomyiidae are a large and diverse family of Muscoidea flies.

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Aphrodisiac

An aphrodisiac is a substance alleged to increase libido, sexual desire, sexual attraction, sexual pleasure, or sexual behavior.

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Arctic Circle

The Arctic Circle is one of the two polar circles, and the most northerly of the five major circles of latitude as shown on maps of Earth at about 66° 34' N. Its southern equivalent is the Antarctic Circle.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.

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Banks Peninsula

Banks Peninsula is a peninsula of volcanic origin on the east coast of the South Island of New Zealand.

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Beaked whale

Beaked whales (systematic name Ziphiidae) are a family of cetaceans noted as being one of the least-known groups of mammals because of their deep-sea habitat, reclusive behavior and apparent low abundance.

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Beta-keratin

Beta-keratin (β-keratin) is a member of a structural protein family found in the epidermis of reptiles and birds.

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Bird of prey

Birds of prey or predatory birds, also known as raptors, are hypercarnivorous bird species that actively hunt and feed on other vertebrates (mainly mammals, reptiles and other smaller birds).

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Black vulture

The black vulture (Coragyps atratus), also known as the American black vulture, Mexican vulture, zopilote, urubu, or gallinazo, is a bird in the New World vulture family whose range extends from the southeastern United States to Perú, Central Chile and Uruguay in South America.

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Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources

The Brazilian Institute of the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (Portuguese: Instituto Brasileiro do Meio Ambiente e dos Recursos Naturais Renováveis, IBAMA) is the Brazilian Ministry of the Environment's administrative arm.

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British Columbia

British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada.

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Brown adipose tissue

Brown adipose tissue (BAT) or brown fat makes up the adipose organ together with white adipose tissue (or white fat).

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Bycatch

Bycatch (or by-catch), in the fishing industry, is a fish or other marine species that is caught unintentionally while fishing for specific species or sizes of wildlife.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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Calliphoridae

The Calliphoridae (commonly known as blow flies, blow-flies, carrion flies, bluebottles, or greenbottles) are a family of insects in the order Diptera, with almost 1,900 known species.

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Cape Agulhas

Cape Agulhas (Cabo das Agulhas, "Cape of Needles") is a rocky headland in Western Cape, South Africa.

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Cape of Good Hope

The Cape of Good Hope (Kaap die Goeie Hoop) is a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of the Cape Peninsula in South Africa.

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Carapace

A carapace is a dorsal (upper) section of the exoskeleton or shell in a number of animal groups, including arthropods, such as crustaceans and arachnids, as well as vertebrates, such as turtles and tortoises.

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Caribbean

The Caribbean (el Caribe; les Caraïbes; de Caraïben) is a subregion of the Americas that includes the Caribbean Sea and its islands, some of which are surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some of which border both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean; the nearby coastal areas on the mainland are sometimes also included in the region.

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Carnivore

A carnivore, or meat-eater (Latin, caro, genitive carnis, meaning meat or "flesh" and vorare meaning "to devour"), is an animal or plant whose food and energy requirements are met by the consumption of animal tissues (mainly muscle, fat and other soft tissues) whether through hunting or scavenging.

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Carrion

Carrion, also known as a carcass, is the decaying flesh of dead animals.

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Cephalopod

A cephalopod is any member of the molluscan class Cephalopoda (Greek plural κεφαλόποδες,; "head-feet") such as a squid, octopus, cuttlefish, or nautilus.

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Charadriiformes

Charadriiformes (from Charadrius, the type genus of family Charadriidae) is a diverse order of small to medium-large birds.

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Chelonian Conservation and Biology

Chelonian Conservation and Biology: International Journal of Turtle and Tortoise Research is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research on freshwater turtles, marine turtles, and tortoises (Order Testudines).

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CITES

CITES (shorter name for the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, also known as the Washington Convention) is a multilateral treaty to protect endangered plants and animals from the threats of international trade.

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Cladistics

Cladistics is an approach to biological classification in which organisms are categorized in groups ("clades") based on hypotheses of most recent common ancestry.

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Cleavage (embryo)

In embryology, cleavage is the division of cells in the early development of the embryo, following fertilization.

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Cloning

Cloning is the process of producing individual organisms with identical genomes, either by natural or artificial means.

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Clutch (eggs)

A clutch of eggs is the group of eggs produced by birds, amphibians, or reptiles, often at a single time, particularly those laid in a nest.

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Cnidaria

Cnidaria is a phylum under kingdom Animalia containing over 11,000 species of aquatic animals found both in fresh water and marine environments (predominantly the latter), including jellyfish, hydroids, sea anemones, corals and some of the smallest marine parasites.

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Coati

Coatis (from Tupí), also known as coatimundis, are members of the family Procyonidae in the genera Nasua and Nasuella (comprising the subtribe Nasuina).

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Columbia River

The Columbia River (Upper Chinook: or; Sahaptin: Nch’i-Wàna or Nchi wana; Sinixt dialect swah'netk'qhu) is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest region of North America.

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Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada

The Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC, French: Comité sur la situation des espèces en péril au Canada, COSEPAC) is an independent committee of wildlife experts and scientists whose "raison d'être is to identify species at risk" in Canada.

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Coral reef

A coral reef is an underwater ecosystem characterized by reef-building corals.

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Cosmopolitan distribution

In biogeography, a cosmopolitan distribution is the range of a taxon that extends across most or all of the surface of the Earth, in appropriate habitats; most cosmopolitan species are known to be highly adaptable to a range of climatic and environmental conditions, though this is not always so.

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Countercurrent exchange

Countercurrent exchange is a mechanism occurring in nature and mimicked in industry and engineering, in which there is a crossover of some property, usually heat or some chemical, between two flowing bodies flowing in opposite directions to each other.

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Countershading

Countershading, or Thayer's law, is a method of camouflage in which an animal's coloration is darker on the top or upper side and lighter on the underside of the body.

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Coyote

The coyote (Canis latrans), also known as the American jackal, prairie wolf, or brush wolf is a species of canine native to North America. Leatherback sea turtle and coyote are Fauna of the Western United States.

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Crab

Crabs are decapod crustaceans of the infraorder Brachyura, which typically have a very short projecting tail-like abdomen, usually hidden entirely under the thorax (brachyura means "short tail" in Greek).

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Cretaceous

The Cretaceous is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya).

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Critically Endangered

An IUCN Red List Critically Endangered (CR or sometimes CE) species is one that has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as facing an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild.

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Crocodilia

Crocodilia (or Crocodylia, both) is an order of semiaquatic, predatory reptiles known as crocodilians.

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Crustacean

Crustaceans are a group of arthropods that are a part of the subphylum Crustacea, a large, diverse group of mainly aquatic arthropods including decapods (shrimps, prawns, crabs, lobsters and crayfish), seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, opossum shrimps, amphipods and mantis shrimp.

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Darkling beetle

Darkling beetle is the common name for members of the beetle family Tenebrionidae, comprising over 20,000 species in a cosmopolitan distribution.

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Data deficient

A data deficient (DD) species is one which has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as offering insufficient information for a proper assessment of conservation status to be made.

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Decomposition

Decomposition or rot is the process by which dead organic substances are broken down into simpler organic or inorganic matter such as carbon dioxide, water, simple sugars and mineral salts.

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Dermochelyidae

Dermochelyidae is a family of reptiles which has seven extinct genera and one extant genus, including the largest living sea turtles.

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Dog

The dog (Canis familiaris or Canis lupus familiaris) is a domesticated descendant of the wolf.

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Domenico Vandelli

Domenico Agostino Vandelli (Padua, 8 July 1735 – Lisbon, 27 June 1816) was an Italian naturalist, who did most of his scientific work in Portugal.

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Dominica

Dominica (or; Dominican Creole French: Dominik; Kalinago: Waitukubuli), officially the Commonwealth of Dominica, is an island country in the Caribbean.

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Earthwatch Institute

Earthwatch Institute is an international environmental charity.

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Ecotourism

Ecotourism is a form of tourism marketed as "responsible" travel (using what proponents say is sustainable transport) to natural areas, conserving the environment, and improving the well-being of the local people.

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EDGE species

Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered (EDGE) species are animal species which have a high 'EDGE score', a metric combining endangered conservation status with the genetic distinctiveness of the particular taxon.

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Embryo

An embryo is the initial stage of development for a multicellular organism.

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Endangered species

An endangered species is a species that is very likely to become extinct in the near future, either worldwide or in a particular political jurisdiction.

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Endangered Species Act of 1973

The Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA or "The Act"; 16 U.S.C. § 1531 et seq.) is the primary law in the United States for protecting and conserving imperiled species.

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Endotherm

An endotherm (from Greek ἔνδον endon "within" and θέρμη thermē "heat") is an organism that maintains its body at a metabolically favorable temperature, largely by the use of heat released by its internal bodily functions instead of relying almost purely on ambient heat.

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Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cth) is an Act of the Parliament of Australia that provides a framework for protection of the Australian environment, including its biodiversity and its natural and culturally significant places.

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Espírito Santo

Espírito Santo is a state in southeastern Brazil.

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European Regional Development Fund

The European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) is one of the European Structural and Investment Funds allocated by the European Union.

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Exoskeleton

An exoskeleton (from Greek έξω éxō "outer" and σκελετός skeletós "skeleton") is a skeleton that is on the exterior of an animal in the form of hardened integument, which both supports the body's shape and protects the internal organs, in contrast to an internal endoskeleton (e.g.

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Fastest animals

This is a list of the fastest animals in the world, by types of animal.

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Fertilisation

Fertilisation or fertilization (see spelling differences), also known as generative fertilisation, syngamy and impregnation, is the fusion of gametes to give rise to a zygote and initiate its development into a new individual organism or offspring.

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Fish

A fish (fish or fishes) is an aquatic, anamniotic, gill-bearing vertebrate animal with swimming fins and a hard skull, but lacking limbs with digits.

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Flesh fly

Sarcophagidae are a family of flies commonly known as flesh flies.

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Florida

Florida is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Fluid dynamics

In physics, physical chemistry and engineering, fluid dynamics is a subdiscipline of fluid mechanics that describes the flow of fluids—liquids and gases.

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French Guiana

French Guiana (or; Guyane,; Lagwiyann or Gwiyann) is an overseas department and region of France located on the northern coast of South America in the Guianas and the West Indies.

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Frigatebird

Frigatebirds are a family of seabirds called Fregatidae which are found across all tropical and subtropical oceans.

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Gabon

Gabon (Ngabu), officially the Gabonese Republic (République gabonaise), is a country on the Atlantic coast of Central Africa, on the equator, bordered by Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the north, the Republic of the Congo on the east and south, and the Gulf of Guinea to the west.

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Gastrulation

Gastrulation is the stage in the early embryonic development of most animals, during which the blastula (a single-layered hollow sphere of cells), or in mammals the blastocyst, is reorganized into a two-layered or three-layered embryo known as the gastrula.

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Genet (animal)

A genet (pronounced or) is a member of the genus Genetta, which consists of 17 species of small African carnivorans.

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Ghost crab

Ghost crabs are semiterrestrial crabs of the subfamily Ocypodinae.

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Glossary of scientific naming

This is a list of terms and symbols used in scientific names for organisms, and in describing the names.

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Graeme Hays

Graeme C. Hays (born 1966) is a British and Australian marine ecologist known for his work with sea turtles and plankton.

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Great white shark

The great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias), also known as the white shark, white pointer, or simply great white, is a species of large mackerel shark which can be found in the coastal surface waters of all the major oceans.

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Greenwood Publishing Group

Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. (GPG), also known as ABC-Clio/Greenwood (stylized ABC-CLIO/Greenwood), is an educational and academic publisher (middle school through university level) which is today part of ABC-Clio.

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Ground beetle

Ground beetles are a large, cosmopolitan family of beetles, the Carabidae, with more than 40,000 species worldwide, around 2,000 of which are found in North America and 2,700 in Europe.

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Guinness World Records

Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a British reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.

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Gulf of St. Lawrence

The Gulf of St.

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Gull

Gulls, or colloquially seagulls, are seabirds of the family Laridae in the suborder Lari.

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Guyana

Guyana, officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, is a country on the northern coast of South America, part of the historic mainland British West Indies. Guyana is an indigenous word which means "Land of Many Waters". Georgetown is the capital of Guyana and is also the country's largest city.

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Hapū

In Māori and New Zealand English, a ("subtribe", or "clan") functions as "the basic political unit within Māori society".

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Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville

Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (12 September 1777 – 1 May 1850) was a French zoologist and anatomist.

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Histeridae

Histeridae is a family of beetles commonly known as clown beetles or hister beetles.

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Holocene

The Holocene is the current geological epoch, beginning approximately 11,700 years ago.

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Ileus

Ileus is a disruption of the normal propulsive ability of the intestine.

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Indian Ocean

The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or approx.

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Indonesia

Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans.

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IUCN Red List

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data Book, founded in 1964, is an inventory of the global conservation status and extinction risk of biological species.

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Jaguar

The jaguar (Panthera onca) is a large cat species and the only living member of the genus Panthera native to the Americas. Leatherback sea turtle and jaguar are ESA endangered species.

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Jellyfish

Jellyfish, also known as sea jellies, are the medusa-phase of certain gelatinous members of the subphylum Medusozoa, which is a major part of the phylum Cnidaria.

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Leather

Leather is a strong, flexible and durable material obtained from the tanning, or chemical treatment, of animal skins and hides to prevent decay.

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Leatherback Trust

The Leatherback Trust is a non-profit organization dedicated to the conservation and study of sea turtles and freshwater turtles, with special regard for the leatherback sea turtle.

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Leopold Fitzinger

Leopold Joseph Franz Johann Fitzinger (13 April 1802 – 20 September 1884) was an Austrian zoologist.

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Ley line

Ley lines are straight alignments drawn between various historic structures, prehistoric sites and prominent landmarks.

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Local extinction

Local extinction, also extirpation, is the termination of a species (or other taxon) in a chosen geographic area of study, though it still exists elsewhere.

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Malabsorption

Malabsorption is a state arising from abnormality in absorption of food nutrients across the gastrointestinal (GI) tract.

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Malaysia

Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia.

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Mammal

A mammal is a vertebrate animal of the class Mammalia.

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Marine debris

Marine debris, also known as marine litter, is human-created solid material that has deliberately or accidentally been released in seas or the ocean.

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Mating

In biology, mating is the pairing of either opposite-sex or hermaphroditic organisms for the purposes of sexual reproduction.

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Mayumba National Park

Mayumba National Park (French: Parc national de Mayumba) is a national park in southwestern Gabon.

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Mayumba, Gabon

Mayumba is a Vili- and Shira-speaking town of about 5,208 people on the Atlantic Ocean coast of Gabon, at the end of the N6 road, lying on a peninsula separated from the mainland by the Banio Lagoon.

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Metabolism

Metabolism (from μεταβολή metabolē, "change") is the set of life-sustaining chemical reactions in organisms.

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Mongoose

A mongoose is a small terrestrial carnivorous mammal belonging to the family Herpestidae.

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Monitor lizard

Monitor lizards are lizards in the genus Varanus, the only extant genus in the family Varanidae.

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National Museum Cardiff

National Museum Cardiff (Amgueddfa Genedlaethol Caerdydd) is a museum and art gallery in Cardiff, Wales.

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Natural history

Natural history is a domain of inquiry involving organisms, including animals, fungi, and plants, in their natural environment, leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study.

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Nature Conservation Act 1992

The Nature Conservation Act 1992 is an act of the Parliament of Queensland, Australia, that, together with subordinate legislation, provides for the legislative protection of Queensland's threatened biota.

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Nature Seekers

Nature Seekers is a community-based organization founded in 1990 with the aim of protecting nesting leatherback turtles in Trinidad and Tobago.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Newfoundland and Labrador

Newfoundland and Labrador (Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador; frequently abbreviated as NL) is the easternmost province of Canada, in the country's Atlantic region.

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Ngāi Tahu

Ngāi Tahu, or Kāi Tahu, is the principal Māori iwi (tribe) of the South Island.

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Nicobar Islands

The Nicobar Islands are an archipelagic island chain in the eastern Indian Ocean.

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Nomen nudum

In taxonomy, a nomen nudum ('naked name'; plural nomina nuda) is a designation which looks exactly like a scientific name of an organism, and may have originally been intended to be one, but it has not been published with an adequate description.

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North Sea

The North Sea lies between Great Britain, Denmark, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France.

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Norway

Norway (Norge, Noreg), formally the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula.

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Ontogeny

Ontogeny (also ontogenesis) is the origination and development of an organism (both physical and psychological, e.g., moral development), usually from the time of fertilization of the egg to adult.

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Orca

The orca (Orcinus orca), or killer whale, is a toothed whale that is the largest member of the oceanic dolphin family.

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Oregon

Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.

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Organogenesis

Organogenesis is the phase of embryonic development that starts at the end of gastrulation and continues until birth.

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Osteoderm

Osteoderms are bony deposits forming scales, plates, or other structures based in the dermis.

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Ostia (Rome)

Ostia (officially Lido di Ostia) is a large neighbourhood in the Municipio X of the comune of Rome, Italy, near the ancient port of Rome, which is now a major archaeological site known as Ostia Antica.

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Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions.

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Pakistan

Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia.

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Papua (province)

Papua is a province of Indonesia, comprising the northern coast of Western New Guinea together with island groups in Cenderawasih Bay to the west.

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Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia (a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia).

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Parismina

Barra del Parismina is a village of about 500 people located on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica, at the mouth of the Reventazón River.

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Pelagic zone

The pelagic zone consists of the water column of the open ocean and can be further divided into regions by depth.

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Pheromone

A pheromone is a secreted or excreted chemical factor that triggers a social response in members of the same species.

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Phthalates

Phthalates, or phthalate esters, are esters of phthalic acid.

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Plover

Plovers are members of a widely distributed group of wading birds of family Charadriidae.

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Polyandry in animals

In behavioral ecology, polyandry is a class of mating system where one female mates with several males in a breeding season.

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Polynesia

Polynesia is a subregion of Oceania, made up of more than 1,000 islands scattered over the central and southern Pacific Ocean.

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Pontal do Paraná

Pontal do Paraná is a municipality in the state of Paraná in the Southern Region of Brazil.

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Pope Clement XIII

Pope Clement XIII (Clemens XIII; Clemente XIII; 7 March 1693 – 2 February 1769), born Carlo della Torre di Rezzonico, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 6 July 1758 to his death in February 1769.

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Population control

Population control is the practice of artificially maintaining the size of any population.

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Predation

Predation is a biological interaction where one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey.

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Projeto TAMAR

The Projeto TAMAR (Portuguese for TAMAR Project, with TAMAR being an abbreviation of Tartarugas Marinhas, the Sea Turtles) is a Brazilian non-profit organization owned by the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation.

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Protostegidae

Protostegidae is a family of extinct marine turtles that lived during the Cretaceous period.

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Puget Sound

Puget Sound is a sound on the northwestern coast of the U.S. state of Washington.

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Pyrosome

Pyrosomes, genus Pyrosoma, are free-floating colonial tunicates that usually live in the upper layers of the open ocean in warm seas, although some may be found at greater depths.

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Quebec

QuebecAccording to the Canadian government, Québec (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and Quebec (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.

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Raccoon

The raccoon (or, Procyon lotor), also spelled racoon and sometimes called the common raccoon or northern raccoon to distinguish it from the other species, is a mammal native to North America.

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Radio New Zealand

Radio New Zealand (Te Reo Irirangi o Aotearoa), commonly known as Radio NZ or simply RNZ, is a New Zealand public-service radio broadcaster and Crown entity that was established under the Radio New Zealand Act 1995.

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Rantau Abang

Rantau Abang (Jawi: رنتاو ابڠ) is a small village in Dungun District, Terengganu, Malaysia, which used to be known for its leatherback sea turtle nesting.

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Reptile

Reptiles, as commonly defined, are a group of tetrapods with usually an ectothermic ('cold-blooded') metabolism and amniotic development.

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Requiem shark

Requiem sharks are sharks of the family Carcharhinidae in the order Carcharhiniformes.

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Rohe

The Māori people of New Zealand use the word to describe the territory or boundaries of tribes (although some divide their into several.

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Ross Piper

Ross Piper is a British zoologist, entomologist, and explorer.

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Rove beetle

The rove beetles are a family (Staphylinidae) of beetles, primarily distinguished by their short elytra (wing covers) that typically leave more than half of their abdominal segments exposed.

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Salp

A salp (plural salps, also known colloquially as “sea grape”) or salpa (plural salpae or salpas) is a barrel-shaped, planktonic tunicate in the family Salpidae.

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Saltwater crocodile

The saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus) is a crocodilian native to saltwater habitats, brackish wetlands and freshwater rivers from India's east coast across Southeast Asia and the Sundaic region to northern Australia and Micronesia. Leatherback sea turtle and saltwater crocodile are reptiles of Bangladesh, reptiles of India, reptiles of Indonesia, reptiles of Malaysia, reptiles of Myanmar, reptiles of Thailand, reptiles of Western Australia and reptiles of the Solomon Islands.

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Samuel Garman

Samuel Walton Garman (June 5, 1843 – September 30, 1927), or "Garmann" as he sometimes styled himself, was an American naturalist and zoologist.

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San Francisco Bay

San Francisco Bay is a large tidal estuary in the U.S. state of California, and gives its name to the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Sandspit Beach

Sandspit Beach is a beach located in south west of Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.

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Sandy Point National Wildlife Refuge

Sandy Point National Wildlife Refuge preserves habitat for threatened and endangered species, with particular emphasis on the leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea).

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Scarabaeidae

The family Scarabaeidae, as currently defined, consists of over 35,000 species of beetles worldwide; they are often called scarabs or scarab beetles.

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Scute

A scute or scutum (Latin: scutum; plural: scuta "shield") is a bony external plate or scale overlaid with horn, as on the shell of a turtle, the skin of crocodilians, and the feet of birds.

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Sea turtle

Sea turtles (superfamily Chelonioidea), sometimes called marine turtles, are reptiles of the order Testudines and of the suborder Cryptodira. Leatherback sea turtle and Sea turtle are sea turtles.

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Sea urchin

Sea urchins or urchins, alternatively known as sea hedgehogs, are typically spiny, globular animals, echinoderms in the class Echinoidea.

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Seagrass

Seagrasses are the only flowering plants which grow in marine environments.

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Seri people

The Seri or Comcaac people are an Indigenous group of the Mexican state of Sonora.

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Siphonophorae

Siphonophorae (from Greek siphōn 'tube' + pherein 'to bear') is an order within Hydrozoa, which is a class of marine organisms within the phylum Cnidaria.

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Snail

A snail is a shelled gastropod.

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Sonora

Sonora, officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Sonora (Free and Sovereign State of Sonora), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico.

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Species

A species (species) is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.

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Species at Risk Act

The Species at Risk Act (Loi sur les espèces en péril, SARA) is a piece of Canadian federal legislation which became law in Canada on December 12, 2002.

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Species distribution

Species distribution, or species dispersion, is the manner in which a biological taxon is spatially arranged.

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Sperm whale

The sperm whale or cachalot (Physeter macrocephalus) is the largest of the toothed whales and the largest toothed predator. Leatherback sea turtle and sperm whale are ESA endangered species.

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Squid

A squid (squid) is a mollusc with an elongated soft body, large eyes, eight arms, and two tentacles in the orders Myopsida, Oegopsida, and Bathyteuthida.

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Statistical population

In statistics, a population is a set of similar items or events which is of interest for some question or experiment.

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Subtropics

The subtropical zones or subtropics are geographical and climate zones to the north and south of the tropics.

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Suriname

Suriname, officially the Republic of Suriname (Republiek Suriname), is a country in northern South America, sometimes considered part of the Caribbean and the West Indies.

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Swansea University

Swansea University (Prifysgol Abertawe) is a public research university located in Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom.

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Tambrauw Regency

Tambrauw Regency is a regency of Southwest Papua Province, Indonesia, in the Bird's Head Peninsula of Papua Island.

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Temperature-dependent sex determination

Temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD) is a type of environmental sex determination in which the temperatures experienced during embryonic/larval development determine the sex of the offspring.

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Terengganu

Terengganu (Terengganu Malay: Tranung, Jawi), formerly spelled Trengganu or Tringganu, is a sultanate and federal state of Malaysia.

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Tetrapod

A tetrapod is any four-limbed vertebrate animal of the superclass Tetrapoda.

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Threats to sea turtles

Threats to sea turtles are numerous and have caused many sea turtle species to be endangered. Leatherback sea turtle and Threats to sea turtles are sea turtles.

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Tide

Tides are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the Moon (and to a much lesser extent, the Sun) and are also caused by the Earth and Moon orbiting one another.

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Tiger shark

The tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier) is a species of ground shark, and the only extant member of the genus Galeocerdo and family Galeocerdonidae.

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Tomium

In anatomy, the tomium is the sharp cutting edge of the beak of a bird or the bill of a turtle.

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Traditional ecological knowledge

Traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) describes indigenous and other traditional knowledge of local resources.

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Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad and Tobago, officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is the southernmost island country in the Caribbean region of North America.

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Tropics

The tropics are the regions of Earth surrounding the Equator.

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Tunicate

A tunicate is an exclusively marine invertebrate animal, a member of the subphylum Tunicata. This grouping is part of the Chordata, a phylum which includes all animals with dorsal nerve cords and notochords (including vertebrates).

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Turtle

Turtles are reptiles of the order Testudines, characterized by a special shell developed mainly from their ribs.

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Turtle excluder device

A turtle excluder device (TED) is a specialized device that allows a captured sea turtle to escape when caught in a fisherman's net. Leatherback sea turtle and turtle excluder device are sea turtles.

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Turtle shell

The turtle shell is a shield for the ventral and dorsal parts of turtles (the order Testudines), completely enclosing all the vital organs of the turtle and in some cases even the head.

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United States Virgin Islands

The United States Virgin Islands, officially the Virgin Islands of the United States, are a group of Caribbean islands and an unincorporated and organized territory of the United States.

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University College Cork

University College Cork – National University of Ireland, Cork (UCC) (Coláiste na hOllscoile Corcaigh) is a constituent university of the National University of Ireland, and located in Cork.

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University of Padua

The University of Padua (Università degli Studi di Padova, UNIPD) is an Italian public research university in Padua, Italy.

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Vulnerable species

A vulnerable species is a species which has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as being threatened with extinction unless the circumstances that are threatening its survival and reproduction improve.

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Wader

A flock of Dunlins and Red knots Waders or shorebirds are birds of the order Charadriiformes commonly found wading along shorelines and mudflats in order to forage for food crawling or burrowing in the mud and sand, usually small arthropods such as aquatic insects or crustaceans.

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Washington (state)

Washington, officially the State of Washington, is the westernmost state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.

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West Papua (province)

West Papua (Papua Barat), formerly Irian Jaya Barat (West Irian), is an Indonesian province located in Indonesia Papua.

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World Wide Fund for Nature

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is a Swiss-based international non-governmental organization founded in 1961 that works in the field of wilderness preservation and the reduction of human impact on the environment.

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Yolk

Among animals which produce eggs, the yolk (also known as the vitellus) is the nutrient-bearing portion of the egg whose primary function is to supply food for the development of the embryo.

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Zoological Society of London

The Zoological Society of London (ZSL) is a charity devoted to the worldwide conservation of animals and their habitats.

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Zoology

ZoologyThe pronunciation of zoology as is usually regarded as nonstandard, though it is not uncommon.

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See also

Critically endangered fauna of Australia

Dermochelyidae

Reptiles described in 1761

Reptiles of Canada

Reptiles of Japan

Reptiles of New Zealand

Reptiles of Oceania

Reptiles of the Solomon Islands

Sea turtles

Turtles of Africa

Turtles of Asia

Turtles of Australia

Turtles of Brazil

Turtles of Europe

Vulnerable biota of Europe

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leatherback_sea_turtle

Also known as Chelone coriacea, Chelonia coriacea, Chelyra coriacea, Coriudo coriacea, Dermatochaelis coriacea, Dermatochelys angusta, Dermatochelys atlantica, Dermatochelys coriacea, Dermatochelys porcata, Dermochelidae, Dermochelydis tuberculata, Dermochelys, Dermochelys atlantica, Dermochelys coriacea, Dermochelys schlegeli, Dermochelys schlegelii, Leather back sea turtles, Leather back turtle, Leatherback, Leatherback Turtle, Leatherback Turtles, Leatherbacked turtle, Leatherbacks, Leathery Turtle, Luth turtle, Scombroides sancti-petri, Scytina coriacea, Seytina coriacea, Sphargis angusta, Sphargis coriacea, Sphargis mercurialis, Sphargis schlegelii, Sphargis tuberculata, Testudo arcuata, Testudo coriacea, Testudo lutaria, Testudo lyra, Testudo marina, Testudo tuberculata, Trunkback Turtle.

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