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. It nest from southern Sonora, Mexico, south to Colombia. It nest in moderate numbers fom about Mauritania south to the Congo. Even from time to time The Olive Ridley sea turtle can be seen in Australia and the Pacific islands.

An Olive Ridley Sea Turtle swimming in the sea

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.

Together with the Kemp's Ridley the Olive Ridley sea turtle are the only specie to lay they eggs in big groups of up to thousands of sea turtles. This is known as Arribada.

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