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Hawksbill sea turtle

Eretmochelys imbricata

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Field Notes

Description:

Photo take at -70 ft in a Caribbean reef.
A small sea turtle chiefly of tropical waters that has a narrow pointed beak, two claws on each forelimb, and a carapace of overlapping thick horny plates of browntypically mottled with yellow.

Habitat:

Found predominantly in tropical reefs of the Indian, Pacific, Atlantic oceans.

Notes:

The World Conservation Union. classifies the Hawksbill as critically endangered

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Comments (17)
Blogie
Lovely shots!! I wish I could get this close to them one of these days...
melissac
This is a gorgeous picture!!! Love it.
Gerardo Aizpuru
Yes its very rare but there is a local reef where we seen them often in a very flat reef whit allot of sponges where they like to feed.
Jeannette
Nice experience to see it when its an endangered species :)

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PublishedJanuary 22, 2012

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