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Dermochelyidae (leatherback)
Taxonomy
Dermochelyidae was named by Lydekker (1889) [also attributed to Fitzinger 1843]. It is extant. Its type is Dermochelys.
It was corrected as Dermochelydidae by Jaekel (1911).
It was assigned to Athecata by Lydekker (1889); to Chelonii by Jaekel (1911); to Athecae by Hay (1902), Hay (1930); to Dermochelyoidea by Kuhn (1966), Weems (1988); to Cryptodira by Zittel (1890), Thurmond and Jones (1981), Köhler (1995); to Testudines by Dodd and Morgan (1992), Hirayama (1995), Frank and Ramus (1996); to Dermochelyoidae by Hirayama (1998); to Chelonoidea by Gaffney (1975), Hirayama and Hikida (1998), Karl (2007); to Chelonioidea by Otero et al. (2012), Fallon and Boessenecker (2020); and to Chelonioidea by Baur (1893), Carroll (1988), de la Fuente et al. (1995), Hirayama and Chitoku (1996), Joyce et al. (2004), Parmley et al. (2006), Karl and Tichy (2007), van Dijk et al. (2014), Rhodin et al. (2017), Bona et al. (2024).
It was corrected as Dermochelydidae by Jaekel (1911).
It was assigned to Athecata by Lydekker (1889); to Chelonii by Jaekel (1911); to Athecae by Hay (1902), Hay (1930); to Dermochelyoidea by Kuhn (1966), Weems (1988); to Cryptodira by Zittel (1890), Thurmond and Jones (1981), Köhler (1995); to Testudines by Dodd and Morgan (1992), Hirayama (1995), Frank and Ramus (1996); to Dermochelyoidae by Hirayama (1998); to Chelonoidea by Gaffney (1975), Hirayama and Hikida (1998), Karl (2007); to Chelonioidea by Otero et al. (2012), Fallon and Boessenecker (2020); and to Chelonioidea by Baur (1893), Carroll (1988), de la Fuente et al. (1995), Hirayama and Chitoku (1996), Joyce et al. (2004), Parmley et al. (2006), Karl and Tichy (2007), van Dijk et al. (2014), Rhodin et al. (2017), Bona et al. (2024).