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Turtle

Florida Box Turtle
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Endangered River Turtle's Genes Reveal Ancient Influence of Maya Indians -- ScienceDaily (22 July 2011)

turtle

NOUN:

: any of an order (Testudines syn. Chelonia) of terrestrial, freshwater, and marine reptiles that have a toothless horny beak and a shell of bony dermal plates usually covered with horny shields enclosing the trunk and into which the head, limbs, and tail usually may be withdrawn

ETYMOLOGY:

modification of French tortue, from Late Latin (bestia) tartarucha, feminine of tartaruchus of Tartarus, from Greek tartarouchos, from Tartaros Tartarus; from Mithraic and early Christian association of the turtle with infernal forces

First Known Use: 1612

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Turtles
Temporal range: Late Triassic – Recent, 215–0 Ma

Scientific classification

Florida box turtle Terrapene carolina
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Superorder:	Chelonia Macartney, 1802
Order:	Testudines Linnaeus, 1758 [1]
Suborders
Cryptodira Pleurodira and see text
Diversity
14 extant families with ca. 300 species

blue: sea turtles, black: land turtles

Turtles are reptiles of the order

Wikispecies

Beahrs, Andrew. Twain's Feast: Searching for America's Lost Foods in the Footsteps of Samuel Clemens, NY: Penguin, 2010. [terrapin]
Brennessel, Barbara. Diamonds in the Marsh: A Natural History of the Diamondback Terrapin. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2006.
Deep below, a vibrant world is documented by the first comprehensive marine census -- The Scout Report, 08 October 2010, Volume 16, Number 40
Embryo origami gives the turtle its shell -- NewScientist (10 July 2009)
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- Fisheries & Aquaculture
The Food Timeline -- Lynne Olver, Morris County Library NJ
Fossils Suggest Menu That Made Humans Possible -- Wired (01 June 2010)
Introduction to Testudines: The Turtles -- University of California Museum of Paleontology
Monterey Bay Aquarium
- Seafood WATCH
- Seafood Watch Pocket Guide

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Bathers with a Turtle, 1908
Henri Matisse (1869-1954)

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