Definition of Eretmochelys

1. Noun. Hawksbills.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Eretmochelys

Erdmann's reagent
Erdogan
Erebouni
Erebuni
Erebus
Erechtites hieracifolia
Eredivisie
Erenmalm
Erenmalms
Eresh-kigal
Ereshkigal
Ereshkigel
Erethizon
Erethizon dorsatum
Erethizontidae
Eretmochelys (current term)
Eretmochelys imbricata
Erevan
Erewan
Erewhon
Erewhonian
Erewhonians
Erfurt
Ergotrate Maleate
Erianthus
Erianthus ravennae
Eric
Eric Arthur Blair
Eric Blair
Erica

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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