Green Sea Turtle Scientific Name: Cheloia mydas

Classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptilia Order: Testudines Family: Cheloniidae Genus: Chelonia Species: C. mydas

Physical Environment Adult sea turtles are mostly found in shallow, coastal waters, lagoons, bays, and estuaries. Also some turtles venture in open sea.

Native Home/ Preferred Biome Tropical and subtropical seas and the two distinct seas are the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

Predators Sharks People

Prey Mostly various species of sea grass

Special/ Unique Abdaptations They are cold blooded They breath air There skin has scales

Endangered Status The Green Sea Turtle is endangered.

Interesting characteristics, qualities, or features A Green Sea Turtles cruising speed is about 1.5 to 9.3 kph (0.9-5.8 mph) They have larger upper eyelids There backs are about 78 to 112 cm long and they weigh about 150-410 pounds Sea turtles cant retract it’s head under it’s shell like a land turtle They reproduce asextually

Other interesting facts The largest Green Sea Turtle collected was 4.9 feet long and weighed 871 pounds. The Green Sea Turtle gets it’s name from the color of it’s body fat. In Hawaii they call the Green Sea Turtle Honu.

Countries you could find the Green Sea Turtle in. Hawaii Cost of Florida The Pacific coast of Mexico