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THE valid scientific name of the Mexican loggerhead turtle, described as Thalassochelys (Colpochelys) kempi Garman 1880, is uncertain, since the animal is figured as Testudo caretta in the first specific account of a loggerhead1. Originally, Linnæus (1758) had conferred this name upon a now unrecognizable form he had attempted to describe by publishing a single family character.
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DERANIYAGALA, P. The Mexican Loggerhead in Europe. Nature 144, 156 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144156a0
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