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Turtels and Turtoises
Sea turtles
Leatherback sea turtles
Snapping turtles
Big-headed turtles
Pond turtles, Box turtles, Water turtles
Asian River turtles, Leaf turtels, Roofed turtles, Asian Box turtles
Tortoises
Central American river turtles
Mud or musk turtles
Softshell turtles
Pig-nosed turtles
Austro-American sideneck turtles
Afro-American sideneck turtles
Afro-American river turtles
Beak-headed reptiles
Lizards
Worm lizards
Snakes
Crocodiles
African spurred tortoise
Aldabra giant tortoise
Angulated tortoise
(Ploughshare tortoise)
Argentine tortoise
(Chilean tortoise)
(Chaco tortoise)*
Armenian tortoise*
Babcock's leopard tortoise
(East African leopard tortoise)
Beaked cape tortoise
(Parrot-beaked tortoise)*
Bell's hinge-back tortoise
(Eastern hingeback tortoise)
(Lowveld hinged tortoise)*
Bell’s hinge-back tortoise
(No Subspecific status)
Boulenger`s cape tortoise
(Donner-weer tortoise)*
Brown tortoise
(no subspecific status)*
Burmese Star tortoise
Common spider tortoise
Cyrenaica tortoise
Daudin’s giant tortoise**
Desert tortoise
(Agassiz’s desert tortoise)*
Eastern Hermann's tortoise
Egyptian tortoise
Elongated tortoise
(Yellow-headed tortoise)
Floreana giant tortoise
(Charles Island giant tortoise)**
Florida gopher tortoise*
Forest hingeback tortoise
(Eroded hingeback tortoise)*
Forsten’s tortoise
(Celebes tortoise)*
Galapagos giant tortoise
(no subspecific status)
Geometric tortoise**
Greater padloper
(Karroo tortoise)*
Greek tortoise
(Spur-thighed tortoise)
(No Subspecific status)
Hermann’s tortoise
(No Subspecific status)
Home’s hingeback tortoise*
Horsfield’s tortoise
(Russian tortoise)
(no subspecies status)
Impressed tortoise*
Indian Star tortoise
Iranian tortoise**
Kazakhstan steppe tortoise*
Leopard tortoise
(No Subspecific status)
Madagascan Flat-tailed tortoise*
Malagasy spider tortoise
(Madagascar spider tortoise)
(No Subspecific status)
Marginated tortoise
Mediterranean spur-thighed tortoise
(Nominate subspecies)
Middle Eastern spur-thighed tortoise*
Moroccan tortoise*
Namaqualand tent tortoise*
Negev tortoise*
Northern Brown tortoise
(Black Asian giant tortoise)*
Northern spider tortoise
Northern tent tortoise
(Bushmanland tent tortoise)**
Pancake tortoise
Pinta Island tortoise
(Abingdon Island tortoise)**
Pinzon giant tortoise
(Duncan Island giant tortoise)*
Radiated tortoise
Red-footed tortoise
Réunion giant tortoise**
Santa Cruz giant tortoise
(Indefatigable Island giant tortoise)
Santiago giant tortoise
(James Island giant tortoise)*
Serrated tortoise
(Serrated tent tortoise)
(Kalahari tent tortoise)*
Seychelles giant tortoise*
Sierra Negra giant tortoise**
Souss Valley spur-thighed tortoise*
South African bowsprit tortoise
(Angulate tortoise)
South African Leopard tortoise
Southeastern hinge-back tortoise*
Southern Brown tortoise
(Asian giant tortoise)
Southern tent tortoise
(Common tent tortoise)**
Speckled cape tortoise
(Speckled padloper)
Speke's hingeback tortoise
Tent tortoise
(No Subspecific status)*
Texas gopher tortoise*
Travancore tortoise**
Tunisian spur-thighed tortoise
Turkish spur-thighed tortoise
Volcan Darwin giant tortoise
(Albemarle Island giant tortoise)*
Volcan wolf giant tortoise*
Western Hermann's tortoise
Western hinge-back tortoise
Yellow-footed tortoise
Aldabra giant tortoise
Aldabrachelys gigantea gigantea
(Syn.: Geochelone gigantea)
(Syn.: Dipsochelys dussumieri)
(SCHWEIGGER, 1812)
Photo by:
J. Schmidt
Additional images here:
www.biolib.cz
Information Source for Taxanomy:
Rhodin et al. (2017) Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status (8th Ed.)
Head-Torso-Length:
87 - 122 cm
Weight:
167 - 250 kg
IUCN status:
VU (Vulnerable)
Current Holdings
Former Holdings
Current Holdings
European Union
Austria (4 Holding(s)):
Ebbs (Raritätenzoo)
Klagenfurt (Reptilienzoo Happ)
Wien (Haus des Meeres)
Wien (Tiergarten Schönbrunn)
Belgium (2 Holding(s)):
Cambron-Casteau (Pairi Daiza - vormals Parc Paradisio)
Deigne-Aywaille (Monde Sauvage Zoo)
Cyprus (1 Holding(s)):
Pafos (Zoo)
Czech Republic (5 Holding(s)):
Dvur Kralove (Zoo)
Plzen (Zoo)
Praha (Zoo)
Vysoke Myto (Zahrada Harta)
Zelcin (Zoopark)
Denmark (2 Holding(s)):
Eskilstrup (Krokodille Zoo)
Odense (Zoo)
France (15 Holding(s)):
Beauvoir (Aligator Bay)
Boulogne sur Mer (Aquarium Nausicaa)
Carnoules (Village des tortues)
Civaux (La Planète des Crocodiles)
Doue la Fontaine (Bioparc / Zoo)
Les Mathes (Zoo de La Palmyre)
Lille (Zoo)
Mulhouse (Zoo)
Paris (Ménagerie/Jardin des Plantes)
Pessac (Zoo de Bordeaux)
Pierrelatte (La Ferme aux Crocodiles)
Romanèche-Thorins (Touroparc)
Saint Aignan (ZooParc de Beauval)
Sorède (La Vallée des Tortues)
Vero (A Cupulatta)
France/Guadeloupe (1 Holding(s)):
Bouillante (Zoo de Guadeloupe - Parc des Mamelles)
Germany (16 Holding(s)):
Aachen (Tierpark - Euregiozoo)
Beilrode-Döbrichau (Welt der Reptilien - Der Zoo)
Berlin (Tierpark Friedrichsfelde)
Bochum (Tierpark und Fossilium)
Darmstadt (Zoo Vivarium)
Dresden (Zoo)
Duisburg (Zoo)
Friedberg-Ockstadt (Krokodilzoo)
Hamburg (Tierpark Hagenbeck)
Karlsruhe (Zoologischer Stadtgarten)
Krefeld (Zoo)
München (Tierpark Hellabrunn)
Neu-Ulm (Schildkröten- und Reptilienzoo)
Osnabrück (Zoo)
Rheinberg-Winterswick (Terrazoo)
Saarbrücken (Zoo)
Greece (1 Holding(s)):
Spata (Attica Zoological Park)
Hungary (2 Holding(s)):
Budapest (Zoo - Fővárosi Állat- és Növénykert)
Köröshegy (Teknős Park Balatonföldvár)
Italy (9 Holding(s)):
Bussolengo-Verona (Parco Natura Viva)
Cecina (Parco Gallorose)
Fasano (Zoosafari Fasanolandia)
Lignano Sabbiadoro (Parco Zoo Punta Verde)
Pistoia (Zoo)
Roma (Bioparco - vormals Zoo)
Sant Alessio con Vialone (Parco Faunistico Oasi di Sant Alessio)
Torino (Zoom Torino)
Valbrembo-Bergamo (Parco Faunistico Le Cornelle)
Netherlands (4 Holding(s)):
Amersfoort (Dierenpark)
Amsterdam (Artis Zoo / Natura Artis Magistra)
Rhenen (Ouwehands Dierenpark)
Vlissingen (Reptilienzoo Iguana)
Poland (1 Holding(s)):
Gdansk-Oliwa (Miejski Ogrod Zoologiczny Wybrzeza Gdansk)
Spain (12 Holding(s)):
Agüimes (Parque de los Cocodrilos)
Barcelona (Zoo)
Benidorm (Aquapark Mundomar)
Jerez (Zoo)
La Lajita (Oasis Park)
Madrid (Faunia)
Madrid (Zoo/Aquarium)
Maspalomas (Palmitos Park)
Peñíscola (Jardín del Papagayo)
Puerto Del Carmen (Rancho Texas Park)
Valencia (Bioparc)
Valencia (L Oceanografic)
Sweden (1 Holding(s)):
Eskilstuna (Parken Zoo)
Number: 76
Non-EU and other EAZA countries
Armenia (1 Holding(s)):
Yerevan (Zoolandia Armenia)
Israel (3 Holding(s)):
Beer Menukha (101km Zoo)
Jeruschalajim (The Tisch Family Zoological Gardens)
Ramat Gan (Zoological Center Tel-Aviv)
Norway (1 Holding(s)):
Flå (Vassfaret Bjørnepark)
Russia (3 Holding(s)):
Krasnodar (Safari-park)
Moskva (Zoopark)
Tula (Zooekzotarium)
Singapore (1 Holding(s)):
Singapore (Zoo)
Switzerland (2 Holding(s)):
Studen (Erlebniswelt Seeteufel)
Zürich (Zoo)
Taiwan (1 Holding(s)):
Taipei (Zoo)
Turkey (1 Holding(s)):
Bayramoglu (Faruk Yalcin Zoo)
United Arab Emirates (1 Holding(s)):
Sharjah (Safari Park)
United Kingdom (12 Holding(s)):
Birmingham (Wildlife Conservation Park - ehem. Nature Centre)
Burford (Cotswold Wildlife Park)
Colchester (Zoo)
Heythrop (Zoological Gardens / Amazing Animals)
Linton (Zoo)
Paignton (Zoo - vormals Primley Zoological Garden)
Romsey (Paultons Park Home of Peppa Pig World)
Trinity (Jersey Zoo - vormals Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust)
Twycross (Zoo)
Wingham (Wingham Wildlife Park)
Woburn (Safari Park)
Wraxall (Noahs Ark Zoo Farm)
Number: 26
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