2. Information Student Name: Luis Armando Esqueda Magallanes Teacher Name: Raquel S. Ortiz Camiro School Name: Escuela Secundaria Técnica #26 Number List: #16 Group and Grade: 2E Matter: English
4. Main Threats Facing * Poaching to use your flesh. * The poaching by man and animals Family: Cheloniidae Scientific name: Lepidochelys olivacea Features It's a small turtle, It grows to 71 cms. with six to eight pleural plaques on each side and olive green shell and sawing later. The skin is green above and brighter below, the head is broad, with concave sides. Males have a long thin tail that protrudes from the shell. In the females is much shorter and not enough stand out from the shell.
5. Distribution It is distributed in tropical waters of the Pacific and Indian Ocean, from Micronesia, Japan, India, South Arabia, to northern Australia and South Africa, the coasts of Brazil, French Guiana, Suriname, Guyana and Venezuela in South America, occasionally in the Caribbean Sea, Puerto Rico. In the Pacific, the Galápagos is from California. Many reports or sightings of this species are in shallow coastal waters. However, he was occasionally seen in open seas, but the habitat appears to be shallow water among reefs and beaches, great bays and coastal lagoons. In Costa Rica there are several important nesting beaches, two of which are included within protected areas, Nancite beach in Santa Rosa National Park and Ostional within the Wildlife Refuge Ostional. Other beaches are Playa Hermosa, Esterillos in Parrita, Quepos Beach Rey and beach at Carate Osa Península.
