#1742 · 🦎 reptiles
Olive Ridley Sea Turtle
🇳🇱 Warana ·Lepidochelys olivacea
📍 El Salvador
📍 Mexico
📍 Vancouver Island, Port Alberni, BC, CA
📍 Southland, NZ-SO, NZ
📍 Cayenne, GF
📍 Hawaii, US
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Sage Ono · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © xavier0821 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Bernard Gagnon · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. El Salvador:© Eric van den Berghe · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. Mexico:© Bill Levine · CC BY 4.0
- 6. Vancouver Island, Port Alberni, BC, CA:© gavinh · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Southland, NZ-SO, NZ:© Lloyd Esler · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Cayenne, GF:© Ombeline Sculfort · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 9. © Lucas Scott de Marcos · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Hawaii, US:© Kyle Van Houtan · CC BY 4.0
what is it?
The olive ridley sea turtle ( Lepidochelys olivacea ), also known as the Pacific ridley sea turtle , are the second smallest and most abundant of all sea turtles found in the world; this species of sea turtle is found in warm and tropical waters, primarily in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. They can also be found in the warm waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 6,504 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz in 1829 (197 years ago).
- Listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
fact sheet
- English
- Olive Ridley Sea Turtle
- Nederlands
- Warana
- scientific name
- Lepidochelys olivacea
- class
- Reptilia
- order
- Testudines
- family
- Cheloniidae
- IUCN Red List
- VU · vulnerable
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 6,504
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1829 by Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz
IUCN in Dutch: kwetsbaar. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Cheloniidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 39670, Wikidata Q282385, GBIF 2442153, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.