The Olive Ridley Turtel

Taxonomy
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Testudines
Family:	Cheloniidae
Genus:	Lepidochelys
Species:	Olivacea

Status:	Vulnerable

The Olive Ridley Sea turtel are also know as the Pacific ridley. It lives in tropical open water and nest on Pacific shores of South America. The olive ridley nesting from southern Sonora, Mexico, south to Colombia. From about Mauritania south to the Congo it's nesting in moderate numbers. Even from time to time it can be seen in Australia and the Pacific islands.

On occasion nesting has been observed next to the green turtles at Hawke's Bay, Pakistan. Some nesting also occurs in New Britain, Mozambique, Madagascar, peninsular Malaysia and various other localities. In the western Atlantic nesting has been observed in eastern Surinam and in western French Guiana and northwestern Guyana. Non-nesting turtles have been seen as far west as Isla Margarita and Trinidad.

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