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Chelonia mydas

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Noun1.Chelonia mydas - large tropical turtle with greenish flesh used for turtle soupChelonia mydas - large tropical turtle with greenish flesh used for turtle soup
marine turtle, sea turtle - any of various large turtles with limbs modified into flippers; widely distributed in warm seas
Chelonia, genus Chelonia - green turtles


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The Chelonia mydas was 90 centimetres long and 81 centimetres wide, reports said.
Some turtle species include Clemmys insculpta which is the wood turtle; Geochelone sulcata which is the African Spurred tortoise; Chelonia mydas which is the green turtle; Emydoidea blandingii which is the Blanding''s turtle; Clemmys guttata which is the spotted turtle; Malaclemys terrapin which is the diamondback terrapin; and Trachemys s.
The environmental contaminant DDE fails to influence the outcome of sexual differentiation in the marine turtle Chelonia mydas.
 
 
 
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