Kemp's ridley turtle
This is a juvenile Kemp's ridley turtle. Immature Kemp's ridley turtles often have sharp keels on their vertebral scutes similar to immature loggerheads however, the colouration is completely different in Kemp's ridleys with the dorsal aspect being shades of grey/olive with white/yellow underneath.
The carapace is as wide as it is long with 4 pores each side in the inframarginal scutes.
Identification chart reproduced with kind permission from the Research and Management Techniques for the Conservation of Sea Turtles.
Identification chart reproduced with kind permission from the Guide for the Identification of Stranded Sea Turtles: Eastern USA and Gulf of Mexico.
