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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 frosty waters of Alaska as well as the European Arctic occasionally.
Even though some species have a wide circulation, an example of a limited distribution is a Flatback sea turtle (Natator depressus) which only dwells on the continental shelf of Australia, including Papua New Guinea and Indonesia. As well, the Kemp’s Ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys kempii) inhabits only part of the American country.
The main regions of the world while using presence of sea frogs, separated by species, are below.
Oriental sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) - the Atlantic Underwater, Gulf of Mexico, Puerto Rico, Mediterranean and beyond, African coasts, Northern Quarterly report, Argentine, Pacific Ocean.
Loggerhead sea 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 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, Sydney.
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, California (USA), Tasmania and India are just some of the places where that lives.
The adults stay in shallow water and near the coasts, although sometimes they enter the open up sea. They live quietly with other living creatures with the marine fauna, and some stay close to the coral reefs or perhaps rocky areas.
The organic habitat of sea turtles includes feeding, migration, reproduction, and nesting areas.
Seashores are paramount for these reptiles since the females come to the shore to deposit their eggs into the nests.
Estuaries, brackish areas where water in the ocean mixes with fresh water from the rivers, mangroves, and seagrass with tall crops are also part of their an environment. The high diversity of aquatic plants and creatures 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, individual disturbance, ocean pollution and artificial lighting are progressively more severe problems for chelonians, as their spaces keep lowering every day.
Ocean turtles migrate for two factors, searching for food or replica. Trips are hundreds nonetheless sometimes thousands of miles longer, depending on the species and the achievement of their quest.
The Leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) is the species with the longest migrations, traveling around six, 000 km each year. It crosses the Pacific Ocean coming from Asia to the west shoreline of the United States to get more food.
Organic sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) travel approximately 2, 100 km across the Pacific Ocean to reach the waters surrounding the Hawaiian Islands.
The Kemp’s Ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys kempii) cover two main avenues within the region of the Gulf of Mexico: one to the north, for the Mississippi area, and the other to the south of Mexico reaching the Yucatan Peninsula, in the 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 around short distances, and some usually do not migrate at all.
Flatback marine turtles (Natator depressus) make trips within the Australian shorelines, covering up to 1, three hundred km.
The Olive Ridley sea turtles travel over the eastern Pacific Ocean and the Native american Ocean, while for the Loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) there is not known how a large number of miles they travel, but are thought to be thousands.
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