Species Profile
Chelone
Sea turtle
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
ClassReptilia
OrderUnknown
FamilyUnknown
Introduction
Chelone lives in marine environments.
It is aquatic and herbivorous or omnivorous.
Important marine reptile.
Size & Structure
01
Streamlined body
02
Paddle-like limbs
03
Hard shell
04
Olive or brown colour
Chelone — 3D Model
General Features
- Coelom
- Coelomate
- Body plan
- Tube within a tube body plan (Deuterostomous)
- Germ layer
- Triploblastic
- Metamerism
- Absent
- Body symmetry
- Bilateral
- Fertilization
- Internal
- Digestion type
- Complete
- Nervous system
- Well developed brain and spinal cord
- Excretory organ
- Kidneys
- Body temperature
- Poikilothermic, stenohaline
- Circulatory type
- Closed circulation, incomplete double
- Development type
- Direct
- Respiratory type
- Pulmonary respiration
- Mode of excretion
- Uricotelism
- Circulation system
- Closed
- Skeleton structure
- Endoskeleton with exoskeletal shell
- Level of Organisation
- Organ system level
- Regulation of Osmosis
- Osmoregulator
Ecology
Maintains marine vegetation
Part of marine food web
Nutrient cycling
Economic Importance
Ecotourism importance
Conservation significance
Scientific research value