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Updated 5/8/2021
Family Cheloniidae
WARM SEAS
WORLDWIDE
Chelonia mydas
Hanauma Bay, Oahu, Hawaii
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Sea Life Park, Oahu, Hawaii
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Hanauma Bay, Oahu, Hawaii
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Koko Craters, Oahu, Hawaii
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Waimanalo, Oahu,Hawaii
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Kahe Point, Oahu, Hawaii |
Hanauma Bay, Oahu, Hawaii
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Firehouse, Oahu, 25 feet |
Koko Craters, Oahu, Hawaii
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Turtle Canyon, Waikiki, Oahu, 30 feet |
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Haleiwa Trench, Oahu
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Hanauma Bay, Oahu, 25 feet
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Makua, Oahu, 30 feet |
San Pedro Wreck, Waikiki, Oahu, 70 feet
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YO-257 Wreck, Waikiki, Oahu, 90 feet |
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YO-257 Wreck, Waikiki, Oahu, 90 feet
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Honaunau, Hawaii |
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Honaunau, Hawaii
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Puako, Hawaii
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Sleeping with garbage, Makua, Oahu
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Hooked flipper, Makua, Oahu |
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Eastern Island, Midway Atoll |
YO-257 Wreck, Waikiki, Oahu, 80 feet
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Sand Island, Midway Atoll |
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Fibropapilloma tumors, YO-257, Waikiki |
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GREEN SEA
TURTLE honu Kame
The most common sea turtle in Hawaii. Feeds upon sea grasses and
seaweed and rests on beaches or in underwater caverns where it can
remain submerged for several hours on a single breath. Leaves its
home reef to breed every few years to breed and nest at French Frigate
Shoals in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Its primary enemy is
the Tiger Shark
since hunting was effectively banned after 1978, but continued threats
are poaching, boat collisions, entanglement, pollution, and fibropapilloma
tumors. Slow-growing, reaching sexual maturity by 11 years, a
maximum age of about 80 years, and carapace length of 3 feet. Warm seas worldwide.
http://www.fws.gov/pacificislands/fauna/honu.html
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