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Flatback Sea Turtle

Natator depressus

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Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist. — (c) dgoldspink, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Study shows up to four per card, from different observers, so you learn the species rather than one picture. Heart the good ones and swap any you do not like.

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Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Australia.

Australia	56
Western Australia	31
Queensland	16
Northern Territory	9

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

Shell-bearingProtected by a hard shellFrom its classification

Classification

Kingdom	Animals · Animalia
Phylum	Chordates · Chordata
Class	Reptiles · Reptilia
Order	Turtles and Tortoises · Testudines
Family	Typical Sea Turtles · Cheloniidae
Genus	Flatback Sea Turtles · Natator

Sources

Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
Photos and recordings: the creator and source are on each one.
How much to rely on each source

Remember the name next time.

Practise Flatback Sea Turtle with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.

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