Reptilia · Testudines
Green Sea Turtle
Chelonia mydas
The only sea turtle whose adults switch almost entirely to grazing seagrass and algae, a diet that tints its body fat green and gives the species its name.
- Realm
- Marine
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
This range is an occurrence-derived learning extent, not an official assessment range map. See the methodology page for the complete pipeline. GBIF.org occurrence density (GBIF Maps API v2) · 1° global raster; derived from GBIF per-cell occurrence density, vagrant-trimmed by a cumulative record-count threshold, morphologically closed, small-and-distant components pruned, clipped to a Natural Earth 1:110m realm mask.
Method and versionA sample of openly-licensed occurrence records retained after quality filtering. 824 licence-filtered records across 36 1° cells, retrieved 2026-08-24.
Inspect on GBIFRetained datasets (11)
- Australian Wildlife Conservancy Surveys (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Elements Marine Data (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Fibropapillomatosis: opportunistic records in Veracruz (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- iNaturalist research-grade observations (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Okinawa Turtle Archive: An archive project documenting sea turtle identification and behavior through drone footage. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)