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Chelonia mydas
Chelonia mydas (Chelonia mydas) is the marine animal followed in the study “Green turtles (Chelonia Mydas); Hays; Chagos Archipelago, Western Indian Ocean”. Positions come from a satellite tag. The newest published position was recorded 10 Dec 2012, 7:03 pm. Released by Movebank. The study is finished, so this is an archive, not a live location.
Tamara's note
Green turtles (Chelonia Mydas); Hays; Chagos Archipelago, Western Indian Ocean: 4891 historical reports newly added to this application.
Movement summary
- Reported-position distance
- 3,520 km
- Segments / gaps
- 1 / 0
- Longest gap
- not available
- Median interval
- 1.3 h
- Fastest segment
- 171.1 km/h between reports
- source qc · 760 flags across 760 reports
- implausible displacement rate · 4 flags across 6 reports
Deployments
| Tag | Technology | Started | Ended | Status | Reports |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| satellite gps | satellite_gps | — | — | Status unknown | 760 |
Planet Journal
Green turtles (Chelonia Mydas); Hays; Chagos Archipelago, Western Indian Ocean
Green turtles (Chelonia Mydas); Hays; Chagos Archipelago, Western Indian Ocean: 4891 historical reports newly added to this application.
Published 27 Oct 2026, 1:45 pm · evidence checked 27 Oct 2026, 1:45 pm
Green turtles (Chelonia Mydas); Hays; Chagos Archipelago, Western Indian Ocean
Green turtles (Chelonia Mydas); Hays; Chagos Archipelago, Western Indian Ocean: 4891 historical reports newly added to this application.
Published 27 Oct 2026, 1:18 pm · evidence checked 27 Oct 2026, 1:18 pm
References
- Hays GC, Esteban N, Rattray A. 2024. Data from: Study "Green turtles (Chelonia Mydas); Hays; Chagos Archipelago, Western Indian Ocean". Movebank Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.5441/001/1.313 These data are described in 1. Hays GC, Rattray A, Shimada T, Esteban N. 2024. Individual variation in home-range across an ocean basin and links to habitat quality and management. J Appl Ecol. 61(4):658-668. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14599 2. Hays GC, Cerritelli G, Esteban N, Rattray A, Luschi P. 2020. Open ocean reorientation and challenges of island finding by sea turtles during long-distance migration. Curr. Biol. 30(16):32336-3242. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.05.086 3. Esteban N, Mortimer JA, Hays GC. 2017. How numbers of nesting sea turtles can be overestimated by nearly a factor of two. Proc. R. Soc. B. 284:20162581. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.2581 link