Class Reptilia

Order Testudines 
(Chelonia)
(Turtles and Tortoises)

Suborder Cryptodira

Cheloniidae Family
(Sea Turtles) 

• Caretta caretta *
• Chelonia mydas *
• Eretmochelys imbricata *
• Lepidochelys kempii
• Lepidochelys olivacea

Chelydridae Family 
(Snapping Turtles)

• Chelydra serpentina *

Deromchelyidae Family 
(Leatherback Sea Turtle)

• Deromchelys coriacea *

Emydidae Family 
(Pond and River Turtles)

• Rhinoclemmys annulata *
• Rhinoclemmys funerea *
• Rhinoclemmys melanosterna
• Trachemys scripta *

Kinosternidae Family
(Mud and Musk Turtles) 

• Kinosternon angustipons
• Kinosternon leucostomum *
• Kinosternon scorpioides

Testudinidae Family
(Tortoises)  

• Geochelone carbonaria *

References

• Auth, D.L. 1994 Checklist and Bibliography of the Amphibians and Reptiles of Panama, Smithsonian Herptological Information Service. 98.
• Villa, J., Wilson, L.D., & J.D. Johnson 1988 Middle American Herpetology. Univ. of Missouri Press, 131 pp.