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MR. H. W. PARKER in commenting upon my letter to NATURE1 disagreed with my opinion that the turtle Schöepff2 had figured as Testudo caretta Linn, was the olive-backed Mexican loggerhead and not the common brown-red form.
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DERANIYAGALA, P. Names of some Atlantic Loggerhead Turtles. Nature 144, 673 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144673a0
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