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Lepidochelys olivacea

Ridley Sea Turtle

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 220293ITIS 173840key worms:220293
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2026-08-05: itis_id 173840 via WoRMS external link

The olive ridley sea turtle, also known commonly as the Pacific ridley sea turtle, is a species of turtle in the family Cheloniidae. The species is the second-smallest and most abundant of all sea turtles found in the world.W CalCOFI holds 2 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1996 and 1997.R

2
observations
2
records
2
sampling events
1996–1997
years
1
datasets
76 cm
max length
Injured (maybe dead) Olive Ridley turtle, near Mahabalipuram, Tamil Nadu, India
Photo · Bernard Gagnon · CC BY-SA 3.0 · commons

Observed in 1 dataset
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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.

Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Seabirds & Marine Mammals table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/farallon_bird-mammal.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:220293%22

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 76 cm max
Ridley Sea Turtle76 cm
bongo net ring71 cm

max · sealifebase

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 Lepidochelys
Credits silhouette · photo · text · length
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF

WikidataiNaturalistGBIF

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

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