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dermochelyids

dermochelyids is the plural of dermochelyid.

Meaning of dermochelyid

Noun

dermochelyid (plural dermochelyids)

  1. Any of the family Dermochelyidae of marine turtles.
    • 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 dermochelyids

What is dermochelyids the plural of?
Dermochelyids is the plural of dermochelyid.

Words near dermochelyids in the dictionary

  1. dermoabrasion
  2. dermocalyptrogen
  3. dermochelid
  4. dermochelids
  5. dermochelyid
  6. dermochelyids
  7. dermochelyoid
  8. dermochelyoids
  9. dermocosmetic
  10. dermocosmetics
  11. dermoepidermal

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