Reptilia · Testudines
Leatherback Sea Turtle
Dermochelys coriacea
The largest living turtle and the heaviest non-crocodilian reptile, reaching lengths over 2 meters and diving to freezing depths exceeding 1,200 meters.
- Realm
- Marine
- Conservation status
- VUVulnerable
Data provenance
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 version Evidence snapshot
A sample of openly-licensed occurrence records retained after quality filtering. 1430 licence-filtered records across 93 1° cells, retrieved 2026-08-24.
Inspect on GBIFRetained datasets (48)
- Artportalen (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- Beacon Wind Digital Aerial Wildlife Surveys for BOEM Lease Area OCS-A 0520, Equinor Wind US LLC, March 2021 – October 2021 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Cap'n Fish's Cruises sightings (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Digital video aerial surveys of seabirds and marine megafauna in the Gulf of Maine from May 2023 to January 2024 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Ecological Baseline Studies of the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf Option Year 1 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Ecological Baseline Studies of the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf Option Year 2 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Elements Marine Data (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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Happywhale - Leatherback sea turtle in North Atlantic Ocean (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- iNaturalist research-grade observations (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Ipeyendje 2017-2018 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Marine WildWatch Stranding 2016 - 2019 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- MBIS Marine Fauna and Flora observations around New Zealand (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Mid-Atlantic Nearshore and Mid-shelf Baleen Whale Monitoring (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Monitoreo en playas de anidación de tortugas marinas en Ecuador continental (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- NYSDEC aerial surveys (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Records of amphibians and reptiles via iRecord (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Red de varamientos de Euskadi (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- TTCQ Incubation & Emergence data (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- VACAPES NFC Aerial Surveys 2018-2019 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- VACAPES Offshore Study Area Observations (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Verified marine records from Indicia-based surveys (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Vertebrates (except birds; INNS and otters); Outer Hebrides (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Wildlife observations of seabirds and marine mammals collected during sonar vessel surveys in the Gulf of Maine, 2015-2025, by the Maine Coastal Mapping Initiative (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)