Ответ: Turtles (Latin Testudines) — one of the four orders of reptiles, the fossil remains of which are traced for over 220 million years. The detachment contains about 328 modern species, grouped into 14 families and two suborders [1]. Ecologically, turtles are subdivided into marine and terrestrial, and terrestrial, in turn, on land and freshwater [2]. Turtles Haeckel Chelonia.