Hawksbill, Loggerhead, and Ridley Sea Turtles
Carettinae
Cheloniidae is a family of typically large marine turtles that are characterised by their common traits such as, having a flat streamlined wide and rounded shell and almost paddle-like flippers for their forelimbs. The six species that make up this family are: the green sea turtle, loggerhead sea turtle, olive ridley sea turtle, hawksbill sea turtle, flatback sea turtle and the Kemp's ridley sea turtle.
3 branches of this subfamily, most-observed first · about 4 known species
Loggerhead sea turtles
genusCaretta
Hawksbill Sea Turtles
genusEretmochelys
Ridley Sea Turtles
genusLepidochelys
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 797541.