Australian Museum Journal On the status of Chelonia depressa, Garman
- Shortform:
- Fry, 1913, Rec. Aust. Mus. 10(7): 159–186
- Author(s):
- Fry, Dene B.
- Year published:
- 1913
- Title:
- On the status of Chelonia depressa, Garman
- Serial title:
- Records of the Australian Museum
- Volume:
- 10
- Issue:
- 7
- Start page:
- 159
- End page:
- 186
- DOI:
- 10.3853/j.0067-1975.10.1913.900
- Language:
- English
- Plates:
- plates xix–xxii
- Date published:
- 19 December 1913
- Cover date:
- 19 December 1913
- ISSN:
- 0067-1975
- CODEN:
- RAUMAJ
- Publisher:
- The Australian Museum
- Place published:
- Sydney, Australia
- Digitized:
- 16 January 2009
- Available online:
- 06 March 2009
- Reference number:
- 900
- EndNote package:
- EndNote file
- Title page:
- Title page (38kb PDF)
- Complete work:
- Complete work (3340kb PDF)
Abstract
The recent species of marine turtles represent the few surviving forms of a once flourishing group, which reached its zenith probably in Late Mesozoic times. There no longer exist such gigantic and diversified monsters as Archelon, Protostega, and Miolania, but such a uniformity of structure prevails that only four allied genera are admitted. It is natural that three of these, which occasionally visit the European coasts, should have been known to Linnaeus, but it is surprising that the remaining two, Colpochelys kempii, Garman, and Chelonia depressa, Garman, should have remained unknown to naturalists till comparatively recently, showing that even now we cannot safely consider our knowledge of the marine turtles as complete.