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Turtle Habitat
Sea turtles inhabit tropical and subtropical waters around the world, in the case of the leatherback turtle, it reaches the cold waters of Alaska and the European Arctic occasionally.
Even though some species have a wide syndication, an example of a limited distribution is a Flatback sea turtle (Natator depressus) which only recides on the continental shelf of Australia, including Papua Fresh Guinea and Indonesia. Likewise, the Kemp’s Ridley marine turtle (Lepidochelys kempii) inhabits only part of the American place.
The main regions of the world along with the presence of sea turtles, separated by species, are below.
Putting surface sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) - the Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, Puerto Rico, Mediterranean and beyond, African coasts, Northern Quotes, Argentine, Pacific Ocean.
Loggerhead marine turtle (Caretta caretta) - coastal bays and avenues of all continents, except Antarctica.
Kemp’s Ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys kempii) - the Gulf of Mexico, South of the United States and a few specimens in Morocco and the Mediterranean Sea.
Olive Ridley marine turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea) - Mexico, Panama, Costa Rica and India.
Hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) - Indo-Pacific Regions, Africa, Brazil, Quarterly report.
Flatback sea turtle (Natator depressus) - Australian coasts as well as southern Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
Leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) - It has an extensive syndication around the world. The Gulf of Alaska, Argentina, South Africa, Washington dc (USA), Tasmania and India are just some of the places where this lives.
The adults stay in shallow water and near the coasts, but sometimes they enter the open up sea. They live peacefully with other living creatures of the marine fauna, and some stay close to the coral reefs or perhaps rocky areas.
The natural habitat of sea frogs includes feeding, migration, propagation, and nesting areas.
Seashores are paramount for these lizards since the females come for the shore to deposit their eggs into the nests.
Estuaries, brackish areas where water from ocean mixes with freshwater from the rivers, mangroves, and seagrass with tall plants are also part of their environment. The high diversity of aquatic plants and wildlife complement the environment of the turtles that live there.
The coral reefs, which add color and beauty to the seabed, also provide habitat for more than 530 marine organisms, including ocean turtles.
Coastal development, individuals disturbance, ocean pollution and artificial lighting are more and more severe problems for chelonians, as their spaces keep lowering every day.
Ocean turtles migrate for two causes, searching for food or reproduction. Trips are hundreds yet sometimes thousands of miles long, depending on the species and the success of their quest.
The Leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) is the species with the lengthiest migrations, traveling around 6th, 000 km each year. That crosses the Pacific Ocean out of Asia to the west coast of the United States to get more food.
Green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) travel approximately 2, 100km across the Pacific Ocean to reach the waters surrounding the Local Islands.
The Kemp’s Ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys kempii) cover two main routes within the region of the Gulf of Mexico: one to the north, for the Mississippi area, and the various other to the south of Mexico achieving the Yucatan Peninsula, in the Bank of Campeche.
In the case of hawksbill sea turtles, they have numerous migratory patterns. Some individuals show long migrations during breeding seasons, others travel and leisure short distances, and some usually do not migrate at all.
Flatback sea turtles (Natator depressus) produce trips within the Australian coasts, covering up to 1, 300 km.
The Olive Ridley sea turtles travel over the eastern Pacific Ocean and the American indian Ocean, while for the Loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) there is not known how many miles they travel, but are thought to be thousands.
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