protostegid

plural protostegids

1. biologyAny turtle in the family Protostegidae.

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   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).

   2012, Donald B. Brinkman, editor, Morphology and Evolution of Turtles