Scientific name: Dermochelys coriacea Common name Spanish: Tinglar Photo by Claudia Lombard, USFWS Location, Sandy Point National Wildlife Refuge, US Virgin Islands More information: ecos.fws.gov/speciesProfile/profile/speciesProfile.action...
Date 16 June 2011, 16:29
Source Leatherback sea turtle/ Tinglar, USVI
Author U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Southeast Region
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leatherback_sea_turtle_Tinglar,_USVI_(5839996547).jpg

The leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea), sometimes called the lute turtle or leathery turtle, is the largest of all living turtles and is the fourth-heaviest modern reptile behind three crocodilians. It is the only living species in the genus Dermochelys and family Dermochelyidae. It can easily be differentiated from other modern sea turtles by its lack of a bony shell, hence the name. Instead, its carapace is covered by skin and oily flesh. Dermochelys is the only extant genus of the family Dermochelyidae.
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Clade: Americhelydia
Family: Dermochelyidae
Genus: Dermochelys
Species: Dermochelys coriacea (Vandelli, 1761)
Synonyms:
Testudo coriacea Vandellius, 1761
Testudo coriaceous Pennant, 1769 (ex errore)
Testudo arcuata Catesby, 1771
Testudo lyra Lacépède, 1788
Testudo marina Wilhelm, 1794
Testudo tuberculata Pennant, 1801
Chelone coriacea Brongniart, 1805
Chelonia coriacea Oppel, 1811
Testudo lutaria Rafinesque, 1814
Dermochelys coriacea Blainville, 1816
Sphargis mercurialis Merrem, 1820
Coriudo coriacea Fleming, 1822
Scytina coriacea Wagler, 1828
Dermochelis atlantica LeSueur, 1829 (nomen nudum)
Sphargis coriacea Gray, 1829
Sphargis tuberculata Gravenhorst, 1829
Dermatochelys coriacea Wagler, 1830
Chelyra coriacca Rafinesque, 1832 (ex errore)
Dermatochelys porcata Wagler, 1833
Testudo coriacea marina Ranzano, 1834
Dermochelys atlantica Duméril & Bibron, 1835
Dermatochelys atlantica Fitzinger, 1835
Dermochelydis tuberculata Alessandrini, 1838
Sphargis coriacea var. schlegelii Garman, 1884
Dermatochaelis coriacea Oliveira, 1896
Sphargis angusta Philippi, 1899
Dermochelys schlegelii Stejneger, 1907
Dermatochelys angusta Quijada, 1916
Dermochelys coriacea coriacea Gruvel, 1926
Dendrochelys (Sphargis) coriacea Pierantoni, 1934
Dermochelys coriacea schlegeli Mertens, Müller & Rust, 1934 (ex errore)
Chelyra coriacea Bourret, 1941
Seytina coriacea Bourret, 1941
Sphargis schlegelii Bourret, 1941
Dermochelys coriacea schlegelii Carr, 1952
Dermochelys coriacea schlegelli Caldwell, 1962 (ex errore)
Dermochelys schlegeli Barker, 1964
Dermochelys coricea Das, 1985 (ex errore)