soft g turtle diary | turtle room
Turtle Habitat
Marine turtles inhabit tropical and subtropical waters around the world, but in the case of the leatherback turtle, it reaches the wintry waters of Alaska and the European Arctic occasionally.
However some species have a wide division, an example of a limited distribution may be the Flatback sea turtle (Natator depressus) which only dwells on the continental shelf of Australia, including Papua New Guinea and Indonesia. Also, the Kemp’s Ridley marine turtle (Lepidochelys kempii) inhabits only part of the American prude.
The main regions of the world together with the presence of sea turtles, separated by species, happen to be below.
Oriental sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) - the Atlantic Sea, Gulf of Mexico, Puerto Rico, Mediterranean Sea, African coasts, Northern Quarterly report, Argentine, Pacific Ocean.
Loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) - coastal bays and avenues of all continents, except Antarctica.
Kemp’s Ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys kempii) - the Gulf of Mexico, South of the United States and a few specimens in Morocco plus the Mediterranean Sea.
Olive Ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea) -- Mexico, Panama, Costa Rica and India.
Hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) - Indo-Pacific Regions, Africa, Brazil, Down under.
Flatback sea turtle (Natator depressus) - Australian coasts as well as southern Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
Leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) - It has an extensive distribution around the world. The Gulf of Alaska, Argentina, South Africa, Cal (USA), Tasmania and India are just some of the places where this lives.
The adults stay in shallow drinking water and near the coasts, although sometimes they enter the open sea. They live peacefully with other living creatures with the marine fauna, and some stay close to the coral reefs or rocky areas.
The healthy habitat of sea frogs includes feeding, migration, reproduction, and nesting areas.
Shorelines are paramount for these reptiles since the females come to the shore to deposit the eggs into the nests.
Estuaries, brackish areas where water from your ocean mixes with fresh water from the rivers, mangroves, and seagrass with tall plants are also part of their home. The high diversity of aquatic plants and wild animals complement the environment of the frogs that live there.
The coral formations reefs, which add color and beauty to the seabed, also provide habitat for more than 530 marine organisms, including marine turtles.
Coastal development, human disturbance, ocean pollution and artificial lighting are increasingly severe problems for chelonians, as their spaces keep lowering every day.
Marine turtles migrate for two reasons, searching for food or replica. Trips are hundreds yet sometimes thousands of miles longer, depending on the species and the accomplishment of their quest.
The Leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) is the species with the greatest migrations, traveling around 6th, 000 km each year. That crosses the Pacific Ocean via Asia to the west coast of the United States to get more food.
Green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) travel approximately 2, 100 km across the Pacific Ocean to reach the waters surrounding the Hawaiian Islands.
The Kemp’s Ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys kempii) cover two main tracks within the region of the Gulf of Mexico: one to the north, on the Mississippi area, and the different to the south of Mexico achieving the Yucatan Peninsula, in the Bank of Campeche.
In the case of hawksbill sea turtles, they have different migratory patterns. Some specimens show long migrations during breeding seasons, others travel around short distances, and some do not migrate at all.
Flatback ocean turtles (Natator depressus) generate trips within the Australian shorelines, covering up to 1, three hundred km.
The Olive Ridley sea turtles travel along the eastern Pacific Ocean and the Indiana Ocean, while for the Loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) there is not known how many miles they travel, but are thought to be thousands.
Comments
Post a Comment