

Hatchlings may be entirely chocolate brown (J. The flippers and carapace are edged in white (Ernst andīarbour, 1972). These turtles are dark gray toīlack dorsally and ventrally. With 3 longitudinal keels on the 1st 3 vertebral scutes. Juveniles: Hatchlings have elongated, oval shells Posterior margin of the carapace it does not in adult females. The tail in adult males extends beyond the Sexual Dimorphism: There is no apparent sexualĭimorphism in body size (Wilson and Zug, 1991).

Each fore-flipper bears 1 large claw and sometimes a very small 2d Which cannot be withdrawn into shell, wide (18.2-28.2% of CL Lutcavage, 1981) andĬoloration and Pattern: Carapace usually gray inĬolor but sometimes greenish or blackish bridge and hingeless plastron white head and Inframarginal scutes on each bridge, each with a small pore near posterior margin head, Side, pleurals 5/5, and vertebrals 5 anteriormost vertebral rhomboidal in shape, and it andġst pleural scute on each side contact cervical scute on leading edge of carapace 4 large Serrated along the posterior margin carapace as wide as long marginal scutes 12-14 on each Morphology: Carapace smooth, keeled, round, and In Virginia, the largest known Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle was 58.7 cm curved CL Reaching a maximum of 76 cm (29.5 inches) carapace length (CL) and 49 kg (108.5 lb) body The current spelling of kempii was established by Carrĭescription: This is the smallest sea turtle, This species has been included under the name Caretta kempi (Dunn, 1936) and L. It wasįirst placed in the genus Lepidochelys by Barr (1890). Smith and Taylor (1950) restricted the type locality to Key West, Florida. (Colpochelys) Kempii by Samuel Garman in 1880, based on two specimens from the Gulf of Retrieved 11 March 2019.Systematics: Described originally as Thalassochelys

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