Green sea turtle

Facts

• Dark brown, gray or olive shell, a serrated beak and one pair of large scales between the eyes. The name comes from the color of its fat, not its shell.^[1]
• Adults are the only sea turtles that live mainly on plants, grazing seagrass and algae.^[1]
• Never feed or touch sea turtles. It changes their behavior and can put them at risk.^[1]
• Puerto Rico's fishing rules ban catching, keeping or selling any sea turtle.^[2]

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Where it's been reported (10)

From the sources on each dive site's page. Sightings are never guaranteed.

• Crash Boat · Aguadilla & Northwest“green turtles, octopus, moray eels; seahorses and frogfish occasionally” (Vantage Dive Club)
• Lana's Cove · Culebra“green turtles” (Culebra Divers via SSI Scubago / MyDiveGuide)
• Playa Tortuga (Culebrita) · Culebra“green turtles” (PRDayTrips (puertoricodaytrips.com))
• Candyland · Isla Desecheo“leatherback and green turtles” (AFAR)
• Caja de Muertos Northeast Reef · Ponce & South Coast“two areas of intense green turtle grazing in the reef lagoon, possibly critical grazing habitat (2008) — 2008 field inventory (DRNA buoy study, Feb 2008); historical observation” (Vicente & Associates, Inc. for DRNA (Coral Reef Initiative NA06NOS4190108, task CRI-13))
• Escambrón · San Juan & North Coast“green sea turtles” (Scuba Dogs)
• Isla Verde Reef · San Juan & North Coast“hawksbill and green turtles — report cites a hawksbill/green turtle monitoring study confirming the reef as habitat” (Junta de Manejo Reserva Marina Arrecife de la Isla Verde / Arrecifes Pro Ciudad Inc. (hosted by DRNA))
• Mosquito Pier · Vieques“green turtles” (Discover Puerto Rico)
• Isla de Ratones (Cabo Rojo) · West Coast“hawksbill and green turtles (nesting)” (Primera Hora)
• Tres Palmas (Steps) · West Coast“green turtles, hawksbills, lobsters, seahorses, reef fish; occasional bottlenose dolphins; humpback whales in season” (Primera Hora)