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Dermochelys coriacea, 2008-06-15 (iNaturalist).🐢

Photo: Julien Renoult · CC BY 4.0

SpeciesDermochelyidae
Reptiles

🐢Leatherback turtle

Dermochelys coriacea (Vandelli, 1761)

Havslädersköldpadda (Dermochelys coriacea) är världens största sköldpadda och förekommer sparsamt i de flesta tempererade och tropiska oceaner.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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407
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Measurements
11
vs you
≈ 6.8× your weight
Also called
leatherback sea turtle, Leatherback Sea Turtle, Coffin-back, Leatherback, leathery turtle, Leathery Turtle, Luth, Pacific Leatherback Sea Turtle, Trunk Turtle, Trunkback Turtle
Conservation status
VUVulnerable

IUCN Red List assessment, 2013.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
420 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
30 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Leatherback turtle

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

Body mass
420 kgrecord 950 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
30 yearsrecord 30 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
60 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 105
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

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

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

Venomous
No
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Carapace length
9,160 mtypical adult, carapace length
SeaLifeBase
Other figures ↓

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

Figures vary

  • 2.56 mSeaLifeBasev25.04
Snout–vent length
2.7 mmaximum recorded
ReptTraits
Details ↓

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

Volume l
420 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 Leatherback turtle yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classTestudines
  4. ›familyDermochelyidae
  5. ›genusDermochelys
  6. ›speciesDermochelys coriacea
Full lineage
  1. orderTurtles & tortoises · Testudines
  2. superfamilyChelonioidea
  3. familyDermochelyidae
  4. genusDermochelys
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. familyDermochelyidae
  13. genusDermochelys
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Lederschildkröte (de), Dermochelys coriacea (es), havlærskilpadde (nb), เต่ามะเฟือง (th), لجأة جلدية الظهر (ar), δερματοχελώνα (el) … and 27 more languages
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Dermochelys coriacea, 2008-06-15 (iNaturalist).Image title: Close up of dermochelys coriacea leatherback turtle Image from Public domain images website, http://www.public-domain-image.com/full-image/fauna-animals-public-doma…Scientific name: Dermochelys coriacea Common name Spanish: Tinglar Photo by Claudia Lombard, USFWS Location, Sandy Point National Wildlife Refuge, US Virgin Islands More informa…
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