Cheloniidae

Cheloniid sea turtles; Temporal range: Late Cretaceous-Holocene,
	A green sea turtle, a species of the family Cheloniidae, swimming over coral reefs in Kona, Hawaii
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Testudines
Suborder:	Cryptodira
Superfamily:	Chelonioidea
Family:	Cheloniidae; Oppel, 1811
Type genus
	Chelonia; Brongniart, 1800
Genera
	See text.
Synonyms
	Chelonii - Oppel, 1811; Cheloniadae - Gray, 1825; Carettidae - Gray, 1825; Mydae - Ritgen, 1828; Chelonidae - Bonaparte, 1832; Cheloniidae - Cope, 1868;

Cheloniidae is a family of typically large marine turtles that are characterised by their common traits such as, having a flat streamlined wide and rounded shell and almost paddle-like flippers for their forelimbs. They are the only sea turtles to have stronger front limbs than back limbs.^[2] The six species that make up this family are: the green sea turtle, loggerhead sea turtle, olive ridley sea turtle, hawksbill sea turtle, flatback sea turtle and the Kemp's ridley sea turtle.^[3]

^ ^a ^b Rhodin 2011, p. 000.172
^ Pecor, Keith. "Cheloniidae". Animal Diversity Web. Retrieved 2022-10-29.
^ "Cheloniidae - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics". www.sciencedirect.com. Retrieved 2022-10-29.