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  2. Magnetoreception - Wikipedia

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    The map in sea turtles was the first ever described though similar abilities have now been reported in lobsters, fish, and birds. [48] Magnetoreception by land turtles was shown in a 2010 experiment on Terrapene carolina, a box turtle. After teaching a group of these box turtles to swim to either the east or west end of an experimental tank, a ...

  3. Physiology of underwater diving - Wikipedia

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    The deepest diving sea turtle is the leatherback which can reach 1250 m depth, while the record for the longest dive goes to loggerheads (Caretta caretta) in the Mediterranean at more than 10 hours. For many hard-shelled sea turtles, depths visited on average (i.e. outside of overwintering) range from 2–54 m; for leatherbacks, this ranges up ...

  4. Leatherback sea turtle - Wikipedia

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    The leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea), sometimes called the lute turtle, leathery turtle or simply the luth, is the largest of all living turtles and the heaviest non-crocodilian reptile, reaching lengths of up to 2.7 metres (8 ft 10 in) and weights of 500 kilograms (1,100 lb).

  5. Color vision - Wikipedia

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    Color vision is categorized foremost according to the dimensionality of the color gamut, which is defined by the number of primaries required to represent the color vision. This is generally equal to the number of photopsins expressed: a correlation that holds for vertebrates but not invertebrates .

  6. List of Testudines families - Wikipedia

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    Leatherback sea turtle: Leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) Emydidae Rafinesque, 1815: 12: Pond turtles, terrapins, and sliders: Red-eared slider (Trachemys scripta elegans) Geoemydidae Theobald, 1868: 24: Asian leaf turtles, roofed turtles, and Asian box turtles: Amboina box turtle (Cuora amboinensis) Kinosternidae Agassiz, 1857: 4 ...

  7. Cryptodira - Wikipedia

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    Cryptodira is commonly called the "Hidden-Neck Turtles" or the "Inside-Neck Turtles". Cryptodira differ from Pleurodira (side-necked turtles) in that they lower their necks and pull the heads straight back into the shells, instead of folding their necks sideways along the body under the shells' marginals.

  8. List of reptiles of Kerala - Wikipedia

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    2.1.3.1.1 Dermochelys coriacea (leatherback sea turtle / തോൽപ്പുറകൻ കടലാമ) 2.1.4 Family: Testudinidae (tortoises) 2.1.4.1 Genus: Geochelone

  9. Chelonitoxism - Wikipedia

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    Four species of marine turtle have been associated with chelonitoxism: hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata), green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas), loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta gigas), leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea), plus the freshwater species New Guinea giant softshell turtle (Pelochelys bibroni).