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Green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) Moorea🐢

Photo: Charles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 4.0

SpeciesCheloniidae
Reptiles

🐢Green sea turtle

Chelonia mydas (Linnaeus, 1758)

A közönséges levesteknős (Chelonia mydas) a hüllők (Reptilia) osztályának teknősök (Testudines) rendjébe, ezen belül a tengeriteknős-félék (Cheloniidae) családjába tartozó faj. Mint a neve is mutatja, akadnak, akik levest főznek a teknősök húsából, ami egyéb környezeti ártalmakkal egyetemben hozzájárult ahhoz, hogy a faj erősen veszélyeztetett legyen.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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37
Photos
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Measurements
11
vs you
≈ 2.6× your weight
Also called
Chelonia mydas, Green Turtle, green turtle, Green turtle
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.

Population trendIncreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
160 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
75 years
All measurements ↓
Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Green sea turtle

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
160 kgrecord 230 kg · ReptTraits
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Maximum lifespan
75 yearsrecord 75 years · ReptTraits
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Gestation
59 days
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Litter size
about 150
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Diet
Omnivorous
ReptTraits
Details ↓

Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Activity cycle
Cathemeral
ReptTraits
Details ↓

Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Foraging mode
ACT
ReptTraits
Details ↓

Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Venomous
No
ReptTraits
Details ↓

Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Carapace length
0.9 mtypical adult, carapace length
SeaLifeBase
Other figures ↓

Source: SeaLifeBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Figures vary

  • 1.05 mSeaLifeBasev25.04
Snout–vent length
1.5 mmaximum recorded
ReptTraits
Details ↓

Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
160 Laverage
Details ↓

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 Green sea turtle yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classTestudines
  4. ›familyCheloniidae
  5. ›genusChelonia
  6. ›speciesChelonia mydas
Full lineage
  1. orderTurtles & tortoises · Testudines
  2. superfamilyChelonioidea
  3. familyCheloniidae
  4. genusChelonia
All 13 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. orderTurtles & tortoises · Testudines
  10. suborderCryptodira
  11. superfamilyChelonioidea
  12. familyCheloniidae
  13. genusChelonia
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Chelonia mydas (es), Chelonia mydas (fr), soepschildpad (nl), 海龜 (zh), Żółw zielony (pl), צב ים ירוק (he) … and 27 more languages

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