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The Leathery Turtle or Luth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

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The Leathery Turtle, Dermochelys coriacea, the largest living Chelonian, is a creature of great antiquity—a survival from the time of the dinosaurs. It is the only representative of the suborder Athecae and is distinguished from other turtles by the absence of a true shell covered by large plates; it has instead a mosaic of small bony platelets embedded in its skin.

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Research Article
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Oryx , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , August 1961 , pp. 116 - 125
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Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1961

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