hawksbill sea turtle

species of reptile
Taxon taxon Q203538
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Summary

hawksbill sea turtle is a taxon[1]. It ranks in the top 0.56% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,243 views/month, #1,092 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: species[3]
  • IUCN conservation status: Critically Endangered[4]
  • Parent taxon: Eretmochelys[5]
  • Taxon name: Eretmochelys imbricata[6]
  • Commons category: Eretmochelys imbricata[7]
  • Commons gallery: Eretmochelys imbricata[8]
  • Main food source: benthic animal[9]
  • Described by source: Gujin Tushu Jicheng[10]
  • Original combination: Testudo imbricata[11]
  • Taxon synonym: Eretmochelys imbricata squamata[12]
  • Short name: E. imbricata[13]
  • Taxon common name: Hawksbill turtle[14], Tortuga de Carey[15], Caret[16], Tortue à bec faucon[17], Tortue à écailles[18], Tortue Caret[19], Tortue imbriquée[20], 玳瑁[21], 鷹嘴海龜[22], 毒瑁[23], karetschildpad[24], اللجأة صقريَّة المنقار[25], လိပ်စွန်[26], tartuga carei[27]
  • Time period: Holocene[28]
  • Longest observed lifespan: 20[29]
  • Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Invasion Biology[30]

Body

Identifiers

hawksbill sea turtle's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 39672[31]. hawksbill sea turtle's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 27787[32]. hawksbill sea turtle's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 46559472[33]. hawksbill sea turtle's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2442207[34]. hawksbill sea turtle's ITIS TSN is recorded as 173836[35].

Discovery and Description

Things named for hawksbill sea turtle include USS Hawkbill[36], a nuclear-powered attack submarine[37].

Why It Matters

hawksbill sea turtle has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[38] It is known by 102 alternative names across languages and contexts.[39]

Entities named for it include USS Hawkbill[36], a nuclear-powered attack submarine[37].

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Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [37] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [38] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [39] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 5w ago · TerrorBite · 2026-09-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14516 → vulnerable
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ P14516: vulnerable, Added EPBC conservation status (P14516) using data from https://www.environment.gov.au"
  2. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Taxon range → Marajó
    Taxon rank → species
    Maintained by wikiproject → WikiProject Invasion Biology
    Iucn conservation status → Critically Endangered
    + 15 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007534312005171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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