Subspecies in India
This species is listed as Vulnerable in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (https://www.iucnredlist.org/).Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Lepidochelys olivacea - Olive Ridley Sea Turtle
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Type Locality: Manila Bay (Philippines)
Common, known to be distributed throughout Indian coasts (Bay of Bengal, Arabian and Indian oceans) in India (Abreu-Grobois and Plotkin, 2008).
Conservation Status:
This species is listed as Vulnerable in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (https://www.iucnredlist.org/).The species requires range of geographically separated localities and multiple habitats for its life cycle, such as coastal sandy beaches, oceanic zones and neritic water (Abreu-Grobois and Plotkin, 2008). Degradation and destruction of nesting sites, tourism and fish catching related activities in coasts, change in thermal profile of beaches, increasing light pollution, sewage effluents and global warming are potential threats for the survival of the species (Abreu-Grobois and Plotkin, 2008).
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Andhra Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Assam | |||||||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | |||||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | |||||||||||||
| Goa | |||||||||||||
| Gujarat | |||||||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | |||||||||||||
| Kerala | 7 | ||||||||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | |||||||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | |||||||||||||
| Odisha | 3 | ||||||||||||
| Paschimbanga | |||||||||||||
| Pondicherry | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
| Sikkim | |||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | |||||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 8 | 3 |
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Lepidochelys olivacea (Eschscholtz, 1829) – Olive Ridley Sea Turtle. In Kamdar, A. and K. Kunte. (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. v.1.26. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://indianreptiles.org/lepidochelys-olivacea-0, accessed 2025/04/25.