🐢Olive ridley sea turtle
A tartaruga-oliva, tartaruga-olivácea ou tartaruga-marinha-olivácea (nome científico: Lepidochelys olivacea) é uma das espécies de tartaruga-marinha (família dos quelonídeos) de menores dimensões, podendo chegar a 72 cm de carapaça e pesando menos de 50 quilos. Ganhou este nome por causa da cor de azeitona da sua carapaça em forma de coração, a qual é composta por cinco a nove pares de placas laterais ossificadas. É uma espécie carnívora, e tem uma dieta à base de moluscos, peixes, crustáceos, briozoários, tunicados e plantas aquáticas. A reprodução dura cerca de 42 dias, altura em que são postos uma média de 101 ovos em ninhos, enterrados na areia. São mais encontradas entre os oceanos Pacífico e Índico, podendo, e no oceano Atlântico ocorrem no Sul, centro e na costa oeste da África. Esta tartaruga e a tartaruga-de-kemp são conhecidas por seus eventos massivos de postura de ninhos, conhecido como arribadas, onde milhares de fêmeas se reúnem na mesma praia para desovar.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2008.
- Body mass
- 33 kg
- Body length
- not recorded
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 41 years
Everything we know about the Olive ridley sea turtle
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass33 kgmaximum recordedReptTraitsOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 43 kgSeaLifeBasev25.04SeaLifeBase populates Weight independently of Length; the two are not guaranteed to describe the same individual. Verify before publishing.
Maximum lifespan41 yearsmaximum recordedReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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DietCarnivorousReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleDiurnalReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Foraging modeACTReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Carapace length0.75 mtypical adult, carapace lengthSeaLifeBaseOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 0.76 mSeaLifeBasev25.04
Snout–vent length0.61 mmaximum recordedReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l33 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 Olive ridley sea turtle yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classTestudines
- ›familyCheloniidae
- ›genusLepidochelys
- ›speciesLepidochelys olivacea
- orderTurtles & tortoises · Testudines
- superfamilyChelonioidea
- familyCheloniidae
- genusLepidochelys
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- orderTurtles & tortoises · Testudines
- suborderCryptodira
- superfamilyChelonioidea
- familyCheloniidae
- genusLepidochelys
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