THE NATURAL-HISTORY CATALOGUE
A branch of the living world.
110,000 accepted animal species, linked through classification, synonyms, distributions and source literature.
These attributed records come from Catalogue of Life, 2026-09-11. Detail varies; they are not all fully researched, illustrated articles. Browse researched folklore and fiction.
Matches documented source distribution records. Geographic coverage is incomplete.
Family: Testudinidae · Clear filter
37 records · page 1 of 1
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Aldabra Giant Tortoise [gigantea]Aldabrachelys gigantea (Schweigger, 1812) | TestudinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Madagascan (Plowshare or Ploughshare) TortoiseAstrochelys yniphora (Vaillant, 1885) | TestudinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| African Spurred TortoiseCentrochelys sulcata (Miller, 1779) | TestudinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Argentine tortoiseChelonoidis chilensis (Gray, 1870) | TestudinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Yellow-footed TortoiseChelonoidis denticulatus (Linnaeus, 1766) | TestudinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Abingdon Island Giant Tortoise [abingdonii]Chelonoidis niger (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) | TestudinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Berger’s Cape TortoiseChersobius solus (Branch, 2007) | TestudinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Burmese Star TortoiseGeochelone platynota (Blyth, 1863) | TestudinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| (Californian) Desert TortoiseGopherus agassizii (Cooper, 1861) | TestudinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Texas (Gopher )TortoiseGopherus berlandieri (Agassiz, 1857) | TestudinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bolson tortoiseGopherus flavomarginatus Legler, 1959 | TestudinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Morafka’s Desert TortoiseGopherus morafkai Murphy, Berry, Edwards, Leviton, Lathrop & Riedle, 2011 | TestudinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| (Florida) Gopher TortoiseGopherus polyphemus (Daudin, 1801) | TestudinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Parrot-beaked TortoiseHomopus areolatus (Thunberg, 1787) | TestudinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Greater dwarf tortoiseHomopus femoralis Boulenger, 1888 | TestudinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Elongated TortoiseIndotestudo elongata (Blyth, 1854) | TestudinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Celebes TortoiseIndotestudo forstenii (Schlegel & Müller, 1844) | TestudinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Travancore TortoiseIndotestudo travancorica (Boulenger, 1907) | TestudinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bell's eastern hinged tortoiseKinixys belliana Gray, 1831 | TestudinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Home’s Hingeback TortoiseKinixys homeana Bell, 1827 | TestudinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Lobatse Hingeback TortoiseKinixys lobatsiana (Power, 1927) | TestudinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bell’s Hingeback TortoiseKinixys nogueyi (Lataste, 1886) | TestudinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Speke's Hingeback TortoiseKinixys spekii Gray, 1863 | TestudinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bell’s Hingeback TortoiseKinixys zombensis Hewitt, 1931 | TestudinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Pancake TortoiseMalacochersus tornieri (Siebenrock, 1903) | TestudinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Brown TortoiseManouria emys (Schlegel & Müller, 1844) | TestudinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Impressed TortoiseManouria impressa (Günther, 1882) | TestudinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Geometric TortoisePsammobates geometricus (Linnaeus, 1758) | TestudinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Kalahari Tent TortoisePsammobates oculifer (Kuhl, 1820) | TestudinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Tent TortoisePsammobates tentorius (Bell, 1828) | TestudinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Madagascan Spider TortoisePyxis arachnoides Bell, 1827 | TestudinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Madagascan Flat-tailed TortoisePyxis planicauda (Grandidier, 1867) | TestudinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Leopard TortoiseStigmochelys pardalis (Bell, 1828) | TestudinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mediterranean Spur-thighed TortoiseTestudo graeca Linnaeus, 1758 | TestudinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Fergana Valley Steppe Tortoise [bogdanovi]Testudo horsfieldii Gray, 1844 | TestudinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Testudo kleinmanni Lortet, 1883 | TestudinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dwarf marginated tortoise (weissingeri)Testudo marginata Schoepff, 1792 | TestudinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
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Source and selection
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Aedo, C., Aescht, E., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (Version 2026-09-11). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgz5n
First records in source order under phylum quotas, then source-order overflow if a quota is short. This is a selective snapshot. Source name strings can include author names, which are also searchable.