Costa Rica Sea Turtle Species

Sea Turtle Species of Costa Rica

Posted May 2017

There are seven species of ‘Sea Turtles’ in the world.

The seven kinds are divided into two families:

• The Cheloniidae family and
• The Dermochelyidae family.

The Cheloniidae Family has 6 types of the Sea Turtles

• Olive Ridleys
• *Flatbacks
• Loggerheads
• Pacific and Atlantic Greens
• Hawksbills
• Kemp’s Olive Ridleys

*Flatbacks live on the Australian continental shelf along the coastline ‘down-under’. They only nest in the region extended between Australia, Papua New Guinea and southern Indonesia.

The Dermochelyidae Family has only 1 kind of Sea Turtle

• Leatherback

– the 7th member of the Sea Turtle species

Olive Ridleys Sea Turtles

Kemp’s Olive Ridley Sea Turtle

Pacific Green & Atlantic Green Sea Turtle

Leatherback Sea Turtle

Loggerhead

Hawksbill

Sea Turtles Blog Pages:

Part I

• Sea Turtle Nesting in Costa Rica
• Tortoises
• Sea Turtle History
• Sea Turtle Population Threat
• Sea Turtle Facts
• Sea Turtle Life Cycle

Part II

• Costa Rica Sea Turtle Species
• Sea Turtle Species
• Endangered Costa Rica Sea Turtles 
• Human’s Threaten Sea Turtle Extinction
• Counting Sea Turtles
• Save Sea Turtles
• Threats to Sea Turtles