Testudinidae

Chersina angulata (Schweigger, 1812)

Chersina angulata, the angulate tortoise, is a small uniquely-gular-shielded tortoise native to coastal southwestern Africa, facing multiple threats.

Testudo graeca Linnaeus, 1758

Testudo graeca Linnaeus, 1758, the Greek tortoise, has a wide natural range and well-documented reproductive and feeding patterns.

Testudo horsfieldii Gray, 1844

Testudo horsfieldii, the Russian tortoise, is a small sexually dimorphic species that favors dry open sandy habitats.

Testudo marginata Schoepff, 1792

Testudo marginata, the marginated tortoise, is the largest European tortoise native to parts of Southern Europe.

Testudo hermanni Gmelin, 1789

Testudo hermanni, or Hermann's tortoise, is a small to medium tortoise native to southern Europe with two main size-varying subspecies.

Pyxis arachnoides Bell, 1827

The spider tortoise is an endangered Madagascan tortoise threatened by pet trade, poaching, and habitat loss.

Psammobates tentorius (Bell, 1828)

Psammobates tentorius, the Karoo tent tortoise, is a variable small southern African semi-desort tortoise with a distinct patterned shell.

Psammobates oculifer (Kuhl, 1820)

Psammobates oculifer, the serrated tortoise, is a small rare Kalahari Desert tortoise threatened by illegal pet collection.

Manouria impressa (Günther, 1882)

Manouria impressa, the impressed tortoise, is a small, little-known Southeast Asian high-elevation tortoise that feeds mainly on mushrooms.

Manouria emys (Schlegel & Müller, 1844)

Manouria emys, the largest mainland Asian tortoise, is the only tortoise that lays eggs above ground in leaf litter nests.

Malacochersus tornieri (Siebenrock, 1903)

Malacochersus tornieri, the pancake tortoise, is a unique East African tortoise with a thin flexible flat shell.

Kinixys erosa (Schweigger, 1812)

Kinixys erosa, the forest hinge-back tortoise, is a Testudinidae species native to tropical African forests and marshes.

Kinixys lobatsiana (Power, 1927)

Kinixys lobatsiana is a Southern African turtle species found in northern South Africa and southeastern Botswana.

Kinixys spekii Gray, 1863

Speke's hinge-back tortoise (Kinixys spekii) is a hinged-shell tortoise native to savanna habitats across eastern and southwestern Africa.

Homopus femoralis Boulenger, 1888

Homopus femoralis (greater padloper) is a small four-toed padloper tortoise native to high-altitude southern African grasslands.

Homopus areolatus (Thunberg, 1787)

Homopus areolatus, the common padloper, is a small endemic South African tortoise that is relatively abundant in its range.

Indotestudo elongata (Blyth, 1854)

This is a morphological description and distribution summary for the tortoise species Indotestudo elongata.

Gopherus berlandieri Agassiz, 1857

Gopherus berlandieri, the Texas tortoise, is a North American native tortoise found from southern Texas to northeastern Mexico.

Gopherus flavomarginatus Legler, 1959

The Bolson tortoise is the largest North American tortoise species, native to north-central Mexico's Chihuahuan Desert.

Gopherus polyphemus (Daudin, 1801)

Gopherus polyphemus is the gopher tortoise, a terrestrial North American tortoise facing major threats from widespread habitat loss.

Gopherus agassizii (Cooper, 1861)

Gopherus agassizii is a desert-dwelling North American tortoise that digs burrows and lives across the Mojave and adjacent desert regions.

Gopherus morafkai Murphy, Berry, Edwards, Leviton, Lathrop & Riedle, 2011

Gopherus morafkai, the Sonoran or Morafka's desert tortoise, is a terrestrial tortoise native to the Sonoran Desert.

Gopherus evgoodei Edwards, Karl, Vaughn, Rosen, Meléndez-Torres & Murphy, 2016

Gopherus evgoodei is a tortoise species identifiable by distinct physical traits that lives in rocky hilly low mountain terrain

Geochelone elegans (Schoepff, 1795)

Geochelone elegans, the Indian star tortoise, is a dry-region tortoise native to South Asia with patterned shells and self-righting ability.