🐢Hawksbill sea turtle
Karettikilpikonna (Eretmochelys imbricata) kilpikonnien lahkoon kuuluva merikilpikonnien heimon laji. Uhanalaisuudestaan huolimatta rauhoitettua lajia pyydystetään sen kilven takia. Ravinnokseen se käyttää pienempiä merieläimiä ja levää. Pesiviä karettikilpikonnanaaraita on arviolta 8 000.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2008.
- Body mass
- 67 kg
- Body length
- not recorded
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 45 years
Everything we know about the Hawksbill sea turtle
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass67 kgrecord 140 kg · ReptTraitsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: low
Record: largest individual on record
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Maximum lifespan45 yearsmaximum recordedReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation60 daysAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
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DietCarnivorousReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleCathemeralReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Foraging modeACTReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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VenomousNoReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Carapace length0.8 mtypical adult, carapace lengthSeaLifeBaseOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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Figures vary
- 0.9 mSeaLifeBasev25.04
Snout–vent length1 mmaximum recordedReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l67 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Hawksbill sea turtle yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classTestudines
- ›familyCheloniidae
- ›genusEretmochelys
- ›speciesEretmochelys imbricata
- orderTurtles & tortoises · Testudines
- superfamilyChelonioidea
- familyCheloniidae
- genusEretmochelys
All 13 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- orderTurtles & tortoises · Testudines
- suborderCryptodira
- superfamilyChelonioidea
- familyCheloniidae
- genusEretmochelys
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