Misidentifications of sea turtles in the East Pacific: Caretta caretta and Lepidochelys olivacea.

Abstract

Errors stem mainly from a confusion between Caretta caretta and Lepidochelys olivacea. Reidentifications result in reduced distributional, breeding and historic records of C. caretta and invalidate taxonomic combinations formerly used for this species. Distributional and historic records for L. olivacea must also be modified.-from Author