• Found in warm sea water on both continental and island
coasts.
• Typically a solitary animal, it does occasionally
form feeding aggregations in shallow water areas where sea
grass and algae are plentiful. Some feeding areas support
an entire population, others are seen only to contain turtles
of a certain age.
• Nesting sites are always found in places with a sea
water temperature of over 25°c.
•
Widely distributed in tropical and subtropical waters, near
continental coasts and around islands.
• Rare in temperate waters.
• The green turtle, together with the hawksbill, is the
most tropical of all the marine turtles.
• Normal latitudinal range remains within the Northern
and Southern limits of the 20°C isotherm.
• Range in Summer: Western Oceans: 40N 35S; Eastern Oceans:
30N 25S
• Range in Winter: Western Oceans: 30N 25S, Eastern Oceans:
20N 15S.
• Individuals do stray out of these limits but tend to
be in a non reproductive phase.
• In the Mediterranean Sea, green Turtles are thought
to spend most of their time in the Eastern end. They may have
feeding areas on the coast of Tunisia.
