🐢Kemp's ridley sea turtle
Atlantisk bastardsköldpadda (Lepidochelys kempii) är en sköldpadda tillhörande familjen havssköldpaddor som förekommer i de västra delarna av norra Atlanten, utanför USA:s och Mexikos kuster. I IUCN:s rödlistning är arten upptagen som akut hotad.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2019.
- Body mass
- 41 kg
- Body length
- not recorded
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 30 years
Everything we know about the Kemp's ridley sea turtle
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass41 kgrecord 92 kg · ReptTraitsAnAgeOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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Record: largest individual on record
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
By sex
- Female48 kgSeaLifeBasev25.04SeaLifeBase populates Weight independently of Length; the two are not guaranteed to describe the same individual. Verify before publishing.
Maximum lifespan30 yearsrecord 50 years · ReptTraitsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
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Gestation60 daysAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Litter sizeabout 110AnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
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DietOmnivorousReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleDiurnalReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Foraging modeACTReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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VenomousNoReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Carapace length0.66 mtypical adult, carapace lengthSeaLifeBaseOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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By sex
- Female0.66 mSeaLifeBasev25.04
Figures vary
- 0.75 mSeaLifeBasev25.04
Snout–vent length0.75 mmaximum recordedReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l41 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 Kemp's ridley sea turtle yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classTestudines
- ›familyCheloniidae
- ›genusLepidochelys
- ›speciesLepidochelys kempii
- orderTurtles & tortoises · Testudines
- superfamilyChelonioidea
- familyCheloniidae
- genusLepidochelys
All 13 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- orderTurtles & tortoises · Testudines
- suborderCryptodira
- superfamilyChelonioidea
- familyCheloniidae
- genusLepidochelys
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