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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 as well as the European Arctic occasionally.
However some species have a wide syndication, an example of a limited distribution is the 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 continent.
The main regions of the world while using presence of sea frogs, separated by species, are below.
Golf course sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) - the Atlantic Marine, Gulf of Mexico, Puerto Rico, Mediterranean Sea, African coasts, Northern Australia, Argentine, Pacific Ocean.
Loggerhead ocean turtle (Caretta caretta) -- coastal bays and channels of all continents, except Antarctica.
Kemp’s Ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys kempii) - the Gulf of Mexico, South of the United States and many specimens in Morocco plus 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, Down under.
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 the distribution around the world. The Gulf of Alaska, Argentina, South Africa, Ohio (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 sea. They live quietly 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 turtles includes feeding, migration, propagation, and nesting areas.
Shorelines are paramount for these lizards since the females come for the shore to deposit their very own eggs into the nests.
Estuaries, brackish areas where water in the ocean mixes with fresh water from the rivers, mangroves, and seagrass with tall plants are also part of their home. The high diversity of aquatic plants and wildlife complement the environment of the frogs that live there.
The coral formations reefs, which add color and beauty to the seabed, also provide habitat for more than 530 marine organisms, including sea turtles.
Coastal development, individuals disturbance, ocean pollution and artificial lighting are more and more severe problems for chelonians, as their spaces keep reducing every day.
Marine turtles migrate for two causes, searching for food or replica. Trips are hundreds but sometimes thousands of miles long, depending on the species and the achievement of their quest.
The Leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) is the species with the lengthiest migrations, traveling around six, 000 km each year. That crosses the Pacific Ocean via Asia to the west coast of the United States to get more food.
Oriental 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 ways within the region of the Gulf: one to the north, on the Mississippi area, and the 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 specimens show long migrations during breeding seasons, others travelling short distances, and some usually do not migrate at all.
Flatback marine turtles (Natator depressus) produce trips within the Australian coasts, covering up to 1, three hundred km.
The Olive Ridley sea turtles travel over the eastern Pacific Ocean and the Native american indian Ocean, while for the Loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) there is not known how a large number of miles they travel, tend to be thought to be thousands.
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