Adults can also weigh between 70kg and 200kg, having a shell length between 81cm to 125cm. Found in tropical and subtropical seas worldwide. Abundant along the tropical coasts of Australia and on the Great Barrier Reef. In north Queensland, Raine Island and Moulter Cay, Southbanks No.7 and 8 and Bramble Cay are significant breeding areas. In the southern Gulf of Carpentaria, Bountiful, Pisonia and Rocky Island are important for breeding in Australia.
Green turtles are the most common nesting species on southern Great Barrier Reef islands.
Black above and white below. Shell is between 4.5cm and 5.3cm long. Their attrctive transparent scales makes the hawlksbill commercially valuable. Tropical Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Rocky places and coral reefs.