Cheloniidae is a family of typically large marine turtles that are characterised by their common traits such as, having a flat streamlined wide and rounded shell that has have almost paddle-like flippers for their forelimbs. The six species that make up this family are; the green sea turtle, loggerhead sea turtle, olive ridley sea turtle, hawksbill sea turtle, flatback sea turtle and the Kemp's ridley sea turtle..
== Morphology ==
Sea turtles, in contrast to their earth-bound relative, the tortoise do not have the ability to retract their heads into their shells. Their plastron, which is the bony...