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 | | 6:254-255, who suggested the family name should be attributed to Gray 1825 and that the Carettinae and Cheloniinae were only tribally, and not subfamilially, distinct. |
| | He also suggested that the former subfamilial arrangement, Cheloniinae and Carettinae (the latter for Caretta and Lepidochelys) was untenable, because Eretmochelys was more closely related to Lepidochelys and Caretta than to Chelonia. |
| | Venezuela 2:269-280, who considered the Dermochelyidae to be distinct from the Cheloniidae, and argued against tribal or subfamilial division of the latter family on the grounds of uncertain allocation of the many fossil genera and ambiguous relationships among the living species. |
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