Chelonia mydas
Green Sea Turtle
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2026-08-05: itis_id 173833 via WoRMS external link
The green sea turtle, also known as the green turtle, black sea turtle, and Pacific green turtle, is a species of large sea turtle of the family Cheloniidae. It is the only species in the genus Chelonia.W CalCOFI holds 3 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1998 and 1998.R
- 3
- observations
- 3
- records
- 3
- sampling events
- 1998
- years
- 1
- datasets
- 1.0 m
- max length
Observed in 1 dataseti
One row per dataset, and beside it one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same
strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses
(dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet
pill marks a name the authority does not accept.
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One row per dataset, and beside it one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.
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name used: Chelonia mydas Green Sea Turtle · code
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Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:137206")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:137206'").df()Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.20, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
How big is it 1.0 m max · egg 44–60.4 mm
Every mark is a measured length with its own source — hover one to read it. The reference objects are _data/size_reference.csv: two of them, the 505 µm bongo mesh and the net's ring, are CalCOFI's own sampling gear.
Lineage 12 ranks · Biota to Chelonia
Credits silhouette · photo · text · length
- Silhouette · Ray Chatterji · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Chelonia mydas · source
- Photo · Paul Asman and Jill Lenoble · CC BY 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Green sea turtle” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1374281506
- Length · sealifebase
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF
The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.
Cite the release, v2026.10.20
Cite the release, v2026.10.20; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗