Definition of Order Chelonia

1. Noun. Tortoises and turtles.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Chelonia

order Blastocladiales
order Branchiura
order Bryales
order Campanulales
order Caprimulgiformes
order Carnivora
order Caryophyllales
order Casuariiformes
order Casuarinales
order Caudata
order Cestida
order Cetacea
order Charadriiformes
order Charales
order Chelonethida
order Chelonia (current term)
order Chiroptera
order Chlorococcales
order Chytridiales
order Ciconiiformes
order Cilioflagellata
order Coccidia
order Coleoptera
order Collembola
order Columbiformes
order Colymbiformes
order Commelinales
order Coniferales
order Conodonta
order Conodontophorida

Literary usage of Order Chelonia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1831)
"SUPPLEMENT ON THE order Chelonia. THE name of this order is of Greek origin. XAu'vi? is the name given by Aristotle to the marine tortoise, which is derived ..."

2. Essays and Observations on Natural History, Anatomy, Physiology, Psychology by John Hunter, Richard Owen (1861)
"[Order CHELONIA.] This may be called one order, of which I shall at present reckon two genera, and of which there are many species." The two genera are, ..."

3. Water Reptiles of the Past and Present by Samuel Wendell Williston (1914)
"In most textbooks the order Chelonia is divided into three suborders, the Pleurodira, the Cryptodira, ..."

4. Descriptive Catalogue of the Fossil Organic Remains of Reptilia and Pisces by Museum, Royal College of Surgeons of England (1854)
"The original is from the Keuper sandstone in Germany. Presented by M. Herman von Meyer, FGS Order CHELONIA. ..."

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