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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 cool waters of Alaska plus the European Arctic occasionally.
Even though some species have a wide the distribution, an example of a limited distribution certainly is the Flatback sea turtle (Natator depressus) which only dwells on the continental shelf of Australia, including Papua New Guinea and Indonesia. Also, the Kemp’s Ridley ocean turtle (Lepidochelys kempii) inhabits only part of the American continent.
The main regions of the world together with the presence of sea frogs, separated by species, happen to be below.
Green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) - the Atlantic Water, Gulf of Mexico, Puerto Rico, Mediterranean and beyond, African coasts, Northern Australia, Argentine, Pacific Ocean.
Loggerhead ocean turtle (Caretta caretta) - coastal bays and fields of all continents, except Antarctica.
Kemp’s Ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys kempii) - the Gulf of Mexico, South of the United States and some specimens in Morocco and the Mediterranean Sea.
Olive Ridley ocean 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 shorelines as well as southern Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
Leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) - It has an extensive division 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 drinking water and near the coasts, although sometimes they enter the open sea. They live peacefully with other living creatures on the marine fauna, and some stay close to the coral reefs or perhaps rocky areas.
The normal habitat of sea turtles includes feeding, migration, breeding, and nesting areas.
Beach locations are paramount for these reptiles since the females come towards the shore to deposit the eggs into the nests.
Estuaries, brackish areas where water from the ocean mixes with fresh water from the rivers, mangroves, and seagrass with tall vegetation are also part of their an environment. The high diversity of aquatic plants and fauna complement the environment of the frogs that live there.
The coral reefs 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 increasingly 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 yet sometimes thousands of miles very long, depending on the species and the success of their quest.
The Leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) is the species with the best migrations, traveling around 6th, 000 km each year. This crosses the Pacific Ocean out of Asia to the west coast of the United States to get more food.
Golf course sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) travel approximately 2, 100 km 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: one to the north, to the Mississippi area, and the other to the south of Mexico achieving the Yucatan Peninsula, in the Standard bank of Campeche.
In the case of hawksbill sea turtles, they have different migratory patterns. Some specimens show long migrations during breeding seasons, others travel and leisure short distances, and some 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 along the eastern Pacific Ocean and the Indiana Ocean, while for the Loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) there is not known how various miles they travel, but are thought to be thousands.
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