GREEN TURTLES
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The green sea turtle got its name because of the greenish
color of its cartilage and the fat deposits around
its internal organs.
Kingdom: AnimaliaPhylum: ChordataClass: ReptiliaOrder: CheloniaFamily: CheloniidaeGenus: CheloniaSpecies: mydasSubspecies: mydas mydas, mydas agassizii
This image courtesy of Nisbet Business Services A green sea turtle infected with the
fibropapillomas virus
This image courtesy of Lost Horizons Resorts
Green sea turtle hatchlings
An ecosystem is the interrelationship between a community of living organisms. Whereas if one animal or plant were completely taken away from the ecosystem, all the others could be affected over time.
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The green turtle has been used for our consumption, through capture during commercial
shrimp trawling, egg poaching, and erosion of nesting beaches.
Mechanical raking of nesting beaches can result in compact sand and cause
tire rots, which may hinder or trap hatchlings.
The diet preferred by the adult green turtle is marine algae and grasses, while the juvenile’s diet
mostly consists of jellyfish, sponges, snails, worms, and small mollusks (The Animal Diversity Web, 1995-2001).
As an adult the Green Turtle is strictly a herbivorous sea turtle (herbivorous meaning plant-eating or feeding on plants).
This image courtesy of MIR
Mating green sea turtles
Nesting season is normally in May and June.
Courtship occurs for the male and female by nuzzling their heads or gently biting their flippers and neck.
To guarantee fertilization a female will often mate with several males.
Once every three years the female lays her eggs far above the high tide line.
The sea is where the male always stays.
The female uses her flippers to dig a hole and there she lays about 100 eggs.
Once hatched, the green sea turtle crawls directly towards the water where it spends most of its adult life.
Incubation is normally 50-70 days.
Eggs hatch at night.
Courtesy:
California Turtle and Tortoise Club, 1992