🐢Green sea turtle
Grön havssköldpadda eller soppsköldpadda (Chelonia mydas) är en art i familjen havssköldpaddor som förekommer över hela världen i tropiska och subtropiska havsområden.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.
- Body mass
- 160 kg
- Body length
- not recorded
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 75 years
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 mass160 kgrecord 230 kg · ReptTraitsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Maximum lifespan75 yearsrecord 75 years · ReptTraitsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Gestation59 daysAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Litter sizeabout 150AnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
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DietOmnivorousReptTraitsDetails ↓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 length0.9 mtypical adult, carapace lengthSeaLifeBaseOther figures ↓Hide ↑
Source: SeaLifeBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0
Figures vary
- 1.05 mSeaLifeBasev25.04
Snout–vent length1.5 mmaximum recordedReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l160 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 Green sea turtle yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classTestudines
- ›familyCheloniidae
- ›genusChelonia
- ›speciesChelonia mydas
- orderTurtles & tortoises · Testudines
- superfamilyChelonioidea
- familyCheloniidae
- genusChelonia
All 13 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- orderTurtles & tortoises · Testudines
- suborderCryptodira
- superfamilyChelonioidea
- familyCheloniidae
- genusChelonia
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