World distribution testudines Testudinidae Testudinoidea Astrochelys Chersina Dipsochelys

World distribution testudines מפת תפוצת הצבים וביבשה

( היא משפחת צבים Testudinidae : צבים יבשתיים )שם מדעי . (Testudinoidea) משפחת צבי היבשה - בעל : במשפחה הסוגים הבאים Astrochelys Chersina Dipsochelys Furculachelys Geochelone Gopherus צב גופר Homopus Indotestudo נכחד , Kansuchelys Kinixys צב מפריק Malacochersus צב מתנפח Manouria סין - צב הודו Psammobates Sulcata Tortoises Pyxis נכחד , Sinohadrianus נכחד , Stylemys Testudo צב יבשה נכחד , Xerobates

Adult named Zsa approx. 40 years old, baby Rocky 6 weeks old.

Hermann's Tortoise (Testudo hermanni) 12. 32 12. 42 בקיעת הצב מהביצה

12. 46 14. 47

צבים נשכניים Chelydra serpentina

Chersina angulata

Tortues géantes des Seychelles - Dipsochelys elephantina

Furculachelys whitei

Aldabra Giant Tortoise (Geochelone gigantea) The Aldabra Giant Tortoise from the islands of the Aldabra Atoll in the Seychelles, is one of the largest tortoises in the world.

Child riding an Aldabra Giant Tortoise at the Mt. Kenya Wildlife Conservancy

Jonathan the giant tortoise is fit and healthy despite being 177 years old Jonathan in 1900 with a Boer war prisoner on the remote island of St Helena

Sulcata Tortoises

The Radiated Tortoise, Geochelone radiata, is a species of tortoise , in the genus Geochelone. Although native to southern Madagascar

Geochelone elegans

Red-footed tortoise (Geochelone carbonaria) The Red-footed tortoise is a tortoise native to South America. It draws its name from the red or orange scales visible on its limbs, as well as its head and tail.

Geochelone elegans The Star tortoise belongs to a group of tortoises that bear a distinguishing radiating pattern on their carapaces. Variations of this pattern are quite common among African and to some extent Asian tortoises, and are - despite the eye-catching appearance in unnatural surroundings - a very efficient means of camouflage.

Geochelone nigra abingdoni נכחד בטבע Lonesome George (Spanish: Solitario Jorge) is the last known individual of the Pinta Island Tortoise (Geochelone nigra abingdoni) which is one of eleven extant subspecies of Galápagos tortoise, all of which are native to the Galápagos Islands. He has been labelled the rarest creature in the world, and is a potent symbol for conservation efforts in the Galápagos and internationally

The Galápagos giant tortoise (Geochelone nigra) is the largest living tortoise, native to seven islands of the Galápagos archipelago. Fully grown adults can weigh over 300 kilograms and measure 1. 2 meters (4 ft) long. They are longlived, with a life expectancy in the wild estimated to be 100– 150 years.

The Leopard tortoise (Geochelone pardalis) is a large and attractively marked tortoise found throughout the savannas of Africa, from Sudan to the southern Cape.

The Angonoka, Madagascar Angulated Tortoise. It is endemic to Madagascar. This species is one of the rarest land tortoises in the world.

Sonoran Desert Tortoise - Gopherus agassizii The desert tortoise is a species of tortoise native to the Mojave desert and Sonoran desert of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.

The gopher tortoise is grouped with land tortoises that originated 60 million years ago, in North America. Florida Gopher Tortoise, Gopherus polyphemus

Homopus signatus copulating The Speckled padloper tortoise (Homopus signatus) is the world’s smallest tortoise. Found in western South Africa, the males measure 6– 8 centimetres ; while females measure up to almost 10 centimetres. It feeds on small succulent plants. Weight: 95– 165 grams

Homopus areolatus

Homopus femoralis

Indotestudo elongata

Indotestudo forstenii called Forsten's Tortoise is a species of tortoise found on the Indonesian isle of Sulawesi.

Kinixys

Home's Hinged-backed Tortoise (Kinixys homeana) It is found in Benin, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, and possibly Togo. .

The Pancake Tortoise, or Malacochersus tornieri, is a flat-shelled tortoise most commonly found in Tanzania and Kenya.

Asian Forest Tortoise (Manouria emys) is a species of tortoise found in India , Bangladesh, Burma (or Myanmar), Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia (Sumatra, Borneo).

Manouria emys

psammobates oculiferus

Psammobates tentorius verroxii

Pyxis planicauda

Pyxis arachnoides The Spider Tortoise is a species of turtle in the Testudinidae family. It is endemic to Madagascar.

Kleinmann's Tortoise (Testudo kleinmanni), often called Egyptian Tortoise and occasionally Leith's Tortoise, also includes the Negev Tortoise. It is a critically endangered neck-hiding tortoise. Once more widespread, its numbers are now dwindling. The species is extinct in Egypt, and global extinction is a looming threat unless more actions are taken to protect this species.

Alligator snapping turtle Macrochelys temminckii

Baby Horsefields Tortoises -Testudo horsfieldii

Testudo marginata

Pinky, a rare albino snapping turtle - who suffered malnutrition in his earlier years and now sports an oddly developed shell - is pictured at the Clinch Park Zoo in Traverse City, Michigan

Janus, a double-headed tortoise is busy celebrating his 10 th birthday at the Natural History Museum in Geneva The popular tortoise who is named after a two-faced Roman god, has a condition known as Polycephaly , which is the term used for an animal having more than one head.

testudo hermanni. . .

נקבה Testudo hermanni זכר

Colossochelys atlas formerly known as Testudo atlas, is an extinct species of cryptodire turtle from the Pleistocene period, about 2 million years ago.

Stupendemys 3. 4 m L. Pliocene Brazil, Venezuela סוג נכחד S. geographicus 3. 4 m U. Miocene Brazil Venezuela

The unearthing of three 220 m-year-old fossils in China has solved the enduring mystery of how the turtle got its shell. The ancient remains are the first evidence palaeontologists have of a species of turtle that is in the process of evolving a shell, revealing for the first time how it happened. Fossil hunters uncovered the remains of three remarkably intact adults in Guizhou province last year. Each has characteristics that have never been seen in turtles before, including teeth and an incomplete upper shell, according to a report in the journal Nature. Turtles have had complete shells since the time of the dinosaurs. Before the latest find, the oldest known turtle fossil was a specimen unearthed in Germany dated to 210 m years ago. That creature, named Proganochelys, did not shed light on the evolution of shells because its was already fully formed. Sounds like a perfect example of transitional fossils that creationists are always demanding.

Achilemys cassouleti, the most primitive testudine

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