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carettochelyids

carettochelyids is the plural of carettochelyid.

Meaning of carettochelyid

Noun

carettochelyid (plural carettochelyids)

  1. Any turtle in the family Carettochelyidae.
    • Loss of scutes (and corresponding loss of sucli^([sic]) on the underlying shell plates) is widely regarded as a derived condition that has occurred independently in trionychids, advanced carettochelyids (Carettochelyidae), and derived sea turtles such as dermochelyids and protostegids (e.g., Meylan...2012, Donald B. Brinkman, editor, Morphology and Evolution of Turtles

Questions about carettochelyids

What is carettochelyids the plural of?
Carettochelyids is the plural of carettochelyid.

Words near carettochelyids in the dictionary

  1. caretlike
  2. caretook
  3. caretroside
  4. carets
  5. carettochelyid
  6. carettochelyids
  7. Carew
  8. careware
  9. carework
  10. careworker
  11. careworkers

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