# Testudines

> order of reptiles characterized by a shell

**Wikidata**: [Q223044](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q223044)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/turtle


## References

1. [Source](https://www.woopets.fr/reptile/race/tortue/)
2. Checklist of Chelonians of the World
3. Order Testudines: 2013 update
4. More than 1000 ultraconserved elements provide evidence that turtles are the sister group of archosaurs
5. Turtle origins: insights from phylogenetic retrofitting and molecular scaffolds
6. MicroRNAs support a turtle + lizard clade
7. [Source](https://github.com/JohnMarkOckerbloom/ftl/blob/master/data/wikimap)
8. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
9. Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information
10. Integrated Taxonomic Information System
11. Fossilworks
12. Global Biodiversity Information Facility
13. World Register of Marine Species
14. BBC Things
15. Dyntaxa
16. Plazi
17. YSO-Wikidata mapping project
18. [Turtle Memes and Images - Imgur](https://imgur.com/t/turtle)
19. New Zealand Organisms Register
20. UMLS 2023
21. National Biodiversity Network
22. Nederlands Soortenregister
23. Barcode of Life Data Systems
24. Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
25. National Library of Israel
26. KBpedia
27. Open Tree of Life reference taxonomy version 3.6