5/30/2023 0 Comments Seaturtle family![]() Range: Found in all temperate and tropical waters throughout the world. Lays an average of 115 eggs in each nest, with the eggs incubating for about 60 days. Nesting: Green turtles nest at intervals of about every 2 years, with wide year-to-year fluctuations in numbers of nesting females. Rarely are they observed in the open ocean. Habitat: Mainly stay near the coastline and around islands and live in bays and protected shores, especially in areas with seagrass beds. ![]() Their jaws are finely serrated which aids them in tearing vegetation. Once green turtles reach 8 to 10 inches in length, they mostly eat sea grass and algae, the only sea turtle that is strictly herbivorous as an adult. When less than 8 to 10 inches in length eat worms, young crustaceans, aquatic insects, grasses and algae. Weight: Adults weigh between 240 and 420 pounds (110 – 190 kg).ĭiet: Changes significantly during its life. The largest green turtle ever found was 5 feet (152 cm) in length and 871 pounds (395 kg). The green turtle is the largest of the Cheloniidae family. Size: Adults are 3 to 4 feet in carapace length (83 – 114 cm). The color is where you see the biggest difference with Pacific greens having a dark grey to black carapace and the hatchlings are a dark-brown or black with narrow white border with white underneath. Hatchlings are dark-brown or nearly black with a white underneath and white flipper margins.įor comparison, the Pacific green turtle (aka Black Sea Turtle) has a body that is strongly elevated or vaulted and looks less round in a frontal view than other green sea turtles. The plastron varies from white, dirty white or yellowish in the Atlantic populations to dark grey-bluish-green in the Pacific populations. The carapace color varies from pale to very dark green and plain to very brilliant yellow, brown and green tones with radiating stripes. Body is nearly oval and is more depressed (flattened) compared to Pacific green turtles. Carapace is bony without ridges and has large, non-overlapping, scutes (scales) present with only 4 lateral scutes. Head is small and blunt with a serrated jaw. (In some areas, the Pacific green turtle is also called the black sea turtle.)ĭescription: They are easily distinguished from other sea turtles because they have a single pair of prefrontal scales (scales in front of its eyes), rather than two pairs as found on other sea turtles. Common Name: Green sea turtle – named for the green color of the fat under its shell.
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