Dermochelys coriacea

Familia: Dermochelyidae
Genus: Dermochelys
Species: Dermochelys coriacea

Dermochelys coriacea (Vandelli, 1761)

• Testudo coriacea Vandelli, 1761
• Dermochelys coriacea Blainville, 1816

• Hitchmough, R.A., Patterson, G.K. & Daugherty, C.H. (compilers) 2009. New Zealand living and recently extinct reptiles. P. 542 in:
• King, C.M., Roberts, C.D., Bell, B.D., Fordyce, R.E., Nicoll, R.S., Worthy, T.H., Paulin, C.D., Hitchmough, R.A., Keyes, I.W., Baker, A.N., Stewart, A.L., Hiller, N., McDowall, R.M., Holdaway, R.N., McPhee, R.P., Schwarzhans, W.W., Tennyson A.J.D., Rust, S. & McCadie, I. 2009. Phylum Chordata: lancelets, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals. Pp. 431–551 in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) 2009. New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume 1. Kingdom Animalia. Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch, New Zealand. ISBN 978-1-877257-72-8 Reference page. 
• Jacques Fretey, Alexis Billes & Manjula Tiwari. 2007. Leatherback, Dermochelys coriacea, Nesting Along the Atlantic Coast of Africa. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 6(1): 126–129.
• Jesús Tomás, Brendan J. Godley, Javier Castroviejo & Juan A. Raga. 2010. Critically important nesting habitat for sea turtles of West Africa. Biodiversity and Conservation 19(9): 2699–2714.
• Spotila, J.R., Reina, R.D., Steyermark, A.C., Plotkin, P.T., & Paladino, F.V. 2000. Pacific leatherback faces extinction. Nature 405: 529–530.
• Paladino, F.V., O'Connor, M.P. & Spotila, J.R. 1990. Metabolism of leatherback turtles, gigantothermy, and thermoregulation of dinosaurs. Nature 344: 858–860.
• James, M.C. & Herman, T.B. 2001. Feeding of Dermochelys coriacea on medusae in the northwest Atlantic. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 4: 202–205.
• Dermochelys coriacea – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
• IUCN: Dermochelys coriacea (Vandelli, 1761) (Vulnerable)
• Listed animal in CITES Appendix I

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