Adelita (turtle)
Adelita is the name of the first sea turtle tracked across an ocean basin, the northern Pacific Ocean. A satellite tag was placed on Adelita, a loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta), in 1996 by Wallace "J" Nichols, as part of a research project.
External links
Cheloniidae family | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
| ||||
Genera |
| |||
†Allopleuron | ||||
†Argillochelys | ||||
Caretta | ||||
†Carolinochelys | ||||
Chelonia | ||||
†Eochelone |
| |||
Eretmochelys | ||||
†Gigantatypus | ||||
†Glarichelys |
| |||
†Itilochelys | ||||
Lepidochelys |
| |||
†Mexichelys | ||||
†Miocaretta |
| |||
Natator | ||||
†Pacifichelys |
| |||
†Syllomus |
| |||
†Tasbacka |
| |||
Phylogenetic arrangement of turtles based on turtles of the world 2017 update: Annotated checklist and atlas of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution, and conservation status. †=Extinct. |
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.