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Green sea turtle
Chelonia mydas
-16.0479, 145.644
Field Notes
Description:
The green sea turtle possess a dorso-ventrally flattened body covered by a large, teardrop-shaped carapace and a pair of large, paddle-like flippers. It is usually lightly colored, although parts of the carapace can be almost black in the eastern Pacific. Unlike other members of its family, such as the hawksbill sea turtle and loggerhead sea turtle, C. mydas is mostly herbivorous.
Habitat:
Mackay Reef, Great barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia.
Notes:
One of about six we saw that same day. There's a school of Blue-green chromis in the foreground.
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PublishedMay 28, 2011
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