Olive ridley sea turtle

The olive ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea), kent as the Pacific ridley sea turtle an aw, is a middlin species o sea turtle that for ordinar bides in the warm an tropical watters o the Pacific an Indien Oceans. Houiver, they bide in the warm watters o the Atlantic Ocean as weel.

Olive ridley sea turtle
An olive ridley in Tamil Nadu, Indie
Conservation status
Vulnerable  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kinrick:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Cless:	Reptilia
Order:	Testudines
Faimily:	Cheloniidae
Genus:	Lepidochelys
Species:	L. olivacea
Binomial name
Lepidochelys olivacea (Eschscholtz, 1829)
Synonyms[2]
Testudo mydas minor Suckow, 1798 Chelonia multiscutata Kuhl, 1820 Chelonia olivacea Eschscholtz, 1829 Chelonia caretta var. olivacea Gray, 1831 Chelonia dussumierii Duméril & Bibron, 1835 Caretta olivacea Rüppell, 1835 Thalassochelys (Lepidochelys) olivacea Fitzinger, 1843 Caouana olivacea Gray, 1844 Caouana ruppellii Gray, 1844 (nomen nudum) Chelonia subcarinata Rüppell, 1844 (nomen nudum) Caouana dessumierii Smith, 1849 (ex errore) Chelonia dussumieri Agassiz, 1857 (ex errore) Chelonia polyaspis Bleeker, 1857 (nomen nudum) Lepidochelys dussumieri Girard, 1858 Lepidochelys olivacea Girard, 1858 Chelonia dubia Bleeker, 1864 (nomen nudum) Cephalochelys oceanica Gray, 1873 (nomen nudum) Cephalochelys oceanica Gray, 1873 Thalassiochelys tarapacona Philippi, 1887 Thalassochelys tarapacana Philippi, 1887 Thalassochelys tarapacona Boulenger, 1889 Chelonia olivaccea Velasco, 1892 (ex errore) Thalassochelys controversa Philippi, 1899 Caretta remivaga Hay, 1908 Caretta caretta var. olivacea Deraniyagala, 1930 Lepidochelys olivacea olivacea Deraniyagala, 1943 Caretta olivacea olivacea Mertens, 1952 Lepidochelys olivacea remivaga Schmidt, 1953 Caouana rueppellii Wermuth & Mertens, 1961 (ex errore) Lepidochelis olivacea Tamayo, 1962 Lepidochelys olivaceas Kesteven, 1969 (ex errore) Chelonia multicustata Márquez, 1990