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Turtle Habitat
Marine turtles inhabit tropical and subtropical waters around the world, however in the case of the leatherback turtle, it reaches the cool waters of Alaska as well as the European Arctic occasionally.
Even though some species have a wide distribution, an example of a limited distribution may be the Flatback sea turtle (Natator depressus) which only dwells on the continental shelf of Australia, including Papua Fresh Guinea and Indonesia. Also, the Kemp’s Ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys kempii) inhabits only part of the American country.
The main regions of the world with the presence of sea frogs, separated by species, will be below.
Oriental sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) - the Atlantic Marine, Gulf of Mexico, Puerto Rico, Mediterranean Sea, African coasts, Northern Sydney, Argentine, Pacific Ocean.
Loggerhead ocean turtle (Caretta caretta) -- coastal bays and streams 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 plus 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, 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 distribution around the world. The Gulf of Alaska, Argentina, South Africa, Ohio (USA), Tasmania and India are just some of the places where it lives.
The adults stay in shallow normal water and near the coasts, but sometimes they enter the wide open sea. They live peacefully with other living creatures with the marine fauna, and some stay close to the coral reefs or rocky areas.
The healthy habitat of sea frogs includes feeding, migration, mating, and nesting areas.
Seashores are paramount for these reptiles since the females come to the shore to deposit the eggs into the nests.
Estuaries, brackish areas where water from your 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 animals complement the environment of the frogs that live there.
The coral reefs, which add color and beauty to the seabed, also provide habitat for more than 530 marine organisms, including marine turtles.
Coastal development, individual disturbance, ocean pollution and artificial lighting are significantly severe problems for chelonians, as their spaces keep reducing every day.
Ocean turtles migrate for two reasons, searching for food or reproduction. Trips are hundreds although sometimes thousands of miles long, depending on the species and the accomplishment of their quest.
The Leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) is the species with the greatest migrations, traveling around 6th, 000 km each year. That crosses the Pacific Ocean from Asia to the west shoreline of the United States to get more food.
Putting surface sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) travel approximately 2, 100km across the Pacific Ocean to reach the waters surrounding the Hawaiian Islands.
The Kemp’s Ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys kempii) cover two main tracks within the region of the Gulf: one to the north, to the Mississippi area, and the different to the south of Mexico achieving the Yucatan Peninsula, in the Loan provider of Campeche.
In the case of hawksbill sea turtles, they have various migratory patterns. Some individuals show long migrations during breeding seasons, others travel around short distances, and some do not migrate at all.
Flatback ocean turtles (Natator depressus) help to make trips within the Australian shorelines, covering up to 1, 300 km.
The Olive Ridley sea turtles travel over the eastern Pacific Ocean and the Indian 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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