dermochelyid

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dermochelyid (plural dermochelyids)

(zoology) Any of the family Dermochelyidae of marine turtles.
- 2012, Donald B. Brinkman, editor, Morphology and Evolution of 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 1988; Hirayama and Chitoku 1996).