marine turtle

Synonyms:

sea turtle

Types:

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Chelonia mydas, green turtle

large tropical turtle with greenish flesh used for turtle soup

Caretta caretta, loggerhead, loggerhead turtle

very large carnivorous sea turtle; wide-ranging in warm open seas

ridley

a marine turtle

Eretmochelys imbricata, hawkbill, hawksbill, hawksbill turtle, tortoiseshell turtle

pugnacious tropical sea turtle with a hawk-like beak; source of food and the best tortoiseshell

Dermochelys coriacea, leatherback, leatherback turtle, leathery turtle

wide-ranging marine turtle with flexible leathery carapace; largest living turtle

Atlantic ridley, Lepidochelys kempii, bastard ridley, bastard turtle

grey sea turtle of the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of North America

Lepidochelys olivacea, Pacific ridley, olive ridley

olive-colored sea turtle of tropical Pacific and Indian and the southern Atlantic oceans

Type of:

turtle

any of various aquatic and land reptiles having a bony shell and flipper-like limbs for swimming