Green Turtle
Chelonia mydas
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Description: Despite this turtle’s name, the green turtle is actually colored brown; its name is derived from the greenish fat found in its body.
Green Turtles
The Atlantic green turtle, Chelonia mydas, is a medium to large brownish sea turtle with a radiating or mottled pattern of markings on the shell.
Green turtle
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Description
The Green Turtle has a small head and strong paddle-shaped front flippers. It gets its name from the colour of its fat rather than the colour of its shell.
Green Turtle (Chelonia mydas)
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The Green Turtle is from the order Testudines. All turtles are testudines (or Chelonia). There are more than 280 different species belonging to this order.
Green Turtle
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see sea turtle.
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Sea Turtle - name for several species of large marine turtles found in tropical and subtropical oceans.
Green turtles, like other sea turtles, undertake lengthy migrations from feeding sites to nesting grounds, normally on sandy beaches. Mating occurs every two to four years and normally takes place in shallow waters close to the shore.
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Scientific name: Chelonia mydas
Conservation status in NSW: Vulnerable
National conservation status: Vulnerable ...
Green Turtle
An estimated 100,000 killed in the Indo-Australian archipelago each year
Common Name: Green turtle; Tortue comestible, tortue franche, tortue verte (Fr); Tortuga blanca, tortuga verde (Sp) ...
Green turtles continue to be heavily exploited by humans, and the destruction and loss of nesting and foraging sites is a serious problem.
Common green turtle, Chelonia mydas
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Where are they found? Africa, Asia, Atlantic Ocean, Australia, Indian Ocean, North America, Oceania, Pacific Ocean, South America ...
Green turtle (Chelonia mydas)
The green turtle (Chelonia mydas) is one of the largest and most widespread of all the marine turtles. The oval carapace varies from olive... More 46 Images 22 Videos ...
Green turtles are found in tropical and portions of subtropical oceans worldwide. They are found in the Atlantic Ocean from the eastern United States along coastal South America to South Africa.
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Although it is illegal to hunt green turtles, they are still killed for their flesh and for their shells, which are used for jewellry and ornaments.
Green turtles, named for their green body fat, were valued by European settlers in the New World for their meat, hide, eggs, and "calipee" (the fat attached to the lower shell that formed the basis of the popular green turtle soup).
Male green turtles spend virtually their entire lives at sea. They are born on land and are only rarely sighted on beaches. Green turtles migrate hundreds of miles to breeding grounds to mate.
Common green turtle (Chelonia mydas) swimming on ground with remora fish on its back. Indo Pacific Ocean
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The marine green turtle is a common source for turtle soup and canned turtle meat, many different kinds are eaten, including the brackish water diamondback.
We saw several green turtles in the ocean and a few hatchlings on land. The person's shadow over the baby turtles struggling for the safety of the ocean was not an intentional artistic effect.
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OTHER NAMES: Green Turtle.
DESCRIPTION: Largest of the hard-shelled sea turtles (Family Cheloniidae).
Chelonia mydas or green turtle
Eretmochelys imbricata or hawksbill turtle
Natator depressus or flatback Turtle
Caretta caretta or Loggerhead Sea Turtle
Lepidochelys kempii or Kemp's Ridley turtle
Lepidochelys olivacea or Olive Ridley turtle ...
Here is the little green turtle that has been sold by the thousands in pet and variety stores. Perhaps the most distinctive marking is the broad reddish patch behind each eye. In rare instances, the red is replaced by yellow.
The Atlantic Green Turtle, Chelonia mydas, nests along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts (primarily from Brevard to Palm Beach County) in May and June. It has a broad, oval, dark brown or olive shell.
Populations of the green turtle have been steadily declining and the species is now considered threatened under the U.S. Endangered Species Act.
The East Pacific subpopulation of the green turtle has been classified as a separate species in the past as the black turtle. However, DNA evidence indicates that it is not evolutionarily distinct from the green turtle.
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black or Eastern Pacific green turtle (Chelonia mydas agassizii)
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Green (Chelonia mydas): Medium- to large-sized, brownish turtle with mottled patterns of markings on its shell. The green sea turtle usually lives among sea grass. The green turtle measures 36 to 43 inches and weighs 200 to 300 pounds.
Some which I kept on board the Marion would swallow, in the space of half an hour, a bucketful of young mullets; and when fed on the flesh of green turtles, they would eat several pounds at a meal.
Green turtles only lay their eggs at the beach where they themselves were born, while salmon only deposit eggs in their birth stream. These migrations may last as little as year or may take many years to complete.
 See also: Turtle, Shell, Sea Turtle, Reptile, Leatherback
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