loggerhead turtle
Caretta caretta
A genome study reported about 2.13 billion base pairs in the loggerhead sea turtle assembly.[2][3]
Size and lifespan
- Shell length
- maximum in a source 213 cm[4]
Appearance
It has a large head with strong jaws and a reddish-brown shell.[3]
Life
Females come ashore to lay their eggs on beaches.[3]
The study assembled a 2.13 Gb genome. Most of the sequence was organized into 28 chromosome-level representations, and the BUSCO completeness score was 96.1%.[2]
Places
Native range · Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, and the Mediterranean[3]
It occurs in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans and the Mediterranean Sea.
Sources
- Catalogue of Life 2026-09-25 XR
Catalogue of Life · 2026-10-13
- The genome sequence of the Loggerhead sea turtle, Caretta caretta Linnaeus 1758 [version 2]
F1000Research 12:336, version 2 · 2026-10-25
- Loggerhead sea turtle
Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia · 2026-10-25
- ReptTraits v4: reported total, snout–vent and straight carapace lengths (Oskyrko et al., 2024)
Oskyrko, Mi, Meiri and Du / Figshare · 2026-10-27