Geochelone is a genus of tortoises. Geochelone tortoises, which are also known as typical tortoises or terrestrial turtles, can be found in southern Asia...
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Galápagos tortoise (redirect from Geochelone nigra)
Geochelone abingdonii Pritchard, 1967 Geochelone elephantopus abingdoni Pritchard, 1967 Geochelone elephantopus ephippium Pritchard, 1967 Geochelone ephippium...
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Burmese star tortoise (redirect from Geochelone platynota)
The Burmese star tortoise (Geochelone platynota) is a critically endangered tortoise species, native to the dry, deciduous forests of Myanmar (Burma)....
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Leopard tortoise (redirect from Geochelone pardalis)
the genus Stigmochelys, although in the past, it was commonly placed in Geochelone. This tortoise is a grazing species that favors semiarid, thorny to grassland...
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Indian star tortoise (redirect from Geochelone elegans)
The Indian star tortoise (Geochelone elegans) is a threatened tortoise species native to India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka where it inhabits dry areas and...
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Pinta Island tortoise (redirect from Geochelone nigra abingdoni)
Mertens & Wermuth, 1955; Geochelone elephantopus abingdonii Pritchard, 1967; Geochelone nigra abingdonii Iverson, 1992; and Geochelone abingdonii Valverde...
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Aldabra giant tortoise (redirect from Geochelone gigantea)
zoo-housed individuals. Tortoise & Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group (1996). "Geochelone gigantea". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T9010A12949962...
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Red-footed tortoise (redirect from Geochelone carbonaria)
completely terrestrial habits—the tortoises. In 1835, Leopold Fitzinger used Geochelone to differentiate some non-Mediterranean tortoises, apparently based on...
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African spurred tortoise (redirect from Geochelone sulcata)
RE-introduction Perspectives: 2011" (PDF). IUCN. Retrieved November 8, 2022. "Geochelone sulcata (African Spurred Tortoise)". Animal Diversity Web. "AFRICAN SPURRED...
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Radiated tortoise (redirect from Geochelone radiata)
the normal pattern of other star-patterned tortoise species, such as Geochelone elegans of India. The radiated tortoise is also larger than G. elegans...
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Ergilemys insolitus Ergilemys saikanensis Geochelone Fitzinger 1835:112 Geochelone elegans, Indian star tortoise Geochelone platynota, Burmese star tortoise Gopherus...
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Megalochelys (redirect from Geochelone atlas)
Megalochelys/Colossochelys was considered synonymous with Testudo, and later Geochelone. Today, Colossochelys is regarded as a junior synonym of Megalochelys...
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Yellow-footed tortoise (redirect from Geochelone denticulata)
Galapagos tortoise, the Aldabra tortoise, the African spurred tortoise (Geochelone sulcata, typical size 76 cm (30 in)), the leopard tortoise (Stigmochelys...
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Angonoka tortoise (redirect from Geochelone yniphora)
nomenclature: Tortoise phylogeny and the shifting generic concepts of Testudo and Geochelone". Zoology. 110 (4). Elsevier: 298–307. doi:10.1016/j.zool.2007.02.003...
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Chaco tortoise (redirect from Geochelone chilensis)
Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Geochelone donosobarrosi, p. 74). Bibliography Rhodin, Anders G.J.; van Dijk, Peter...
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Retrieved 14 February 2020. MacFarland 1974a. The galapagos giant tortoises (Geochelone elephantopus). I. Status of the surviving populations. Biological Conservation...
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longest-living organisms Encyclopedia of Life (2014). "Aldabra Tortoise (Geochelone gigantean)". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 28 January 2014. BBC News...
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Centrochelys burchardi (redirect from Geochelone burchardi)
tortoise "The Recently Extinct Plants and Animals Database Extinct Reptiles: Geochelone burchardi". Archived from the original on 19 June 2016. Retrieved 17 June...
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Elongated tortoise (redirect from Geochelone elongata)
Indotestudo elongata Bourret, 1941 Geochelone elongata Pritchard, 1967 Indotestudo elongata elongata Obst, 1985 Geochelone elongata elongata Gosławski & Hryniewicz...
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Centrochelys vulcanica (redirect from Geochelone vulcanica)
gigantism "The Recently Extinct Plants and Animals Database Extinct Reptiles: Geochelone vulcanica". Archived from the original on 2016-06-24. Retrieved 2016-06-17...
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Fernandina Island Galápagos tortoise (redirect from Geochelone nigra phantastica)
(Van Denburgh, 1907) Synonyms Testudo phantasticus Van Denburgh, 1907 Geochelone nigra phantastica Iverson, 1992 Chelonoidis 2 phantastica Chelonoidis...
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Travancore tortoise (redirect from Geochelone travancorica)
Boulenger, 1907 Geochelone travancorica Auffenberg, 1964 Indotestudo travancorica Bour, 1980 Indotestudo elongata travancorica Obst, 1985 Geochelone elongata...
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Indian star tortoise (Geochelone elegans). Occurrence of Camallanus trispinosus in a captive Indian star tortoise (Geochelone elegans). N. Jeyathilakan...
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Milstead, 1956 = Geochelone johnstoni Auffenberg 1962 = Geochelone alleni Auffenberg, 1966 = Geochelone oelrichi Holman, 1972a = Geochelone mlynarskii Auffenberg...
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Centrochelys Chelonoidis Chersina Cylindraspis †Cymatholcus †Floridemys Geochelone Gopherus †Hadrianus †Hesperotestudo Homopus Indotestudo Kinixys Malacochersus...
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Centrochelys Chelonoidis Chersina Cylindraspis †Cymatholcus †Floridemys Geochelone Gopherus †Hadrianus †Hesperotestudo Homopus Indotestudo Kinixys Malacochersus...
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needed] Geochelone chilensis or Chaco tortoise Geochelone pardalis or Leopard tortoise Geochelone elegans or Indian star tortoise Geochelone forstenii...
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Tenerife and Gran Canaria giant rats, and giant tortoises, Geochelone burchardi and Geochelone vulcanica. Although the original settlement of what are now...
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Centrochelys Chelonoidis Chersina Cylindraspis †Cymatholcus †Floridemys Geochelone Gopherus †Hadrianus †Hesperotestudo Homopus Indotestudo Kinixys Malacochersus...
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Aldabrachelys abrupta (redirect from Geochelone abrupta)
Milne-Edwards, 1868 (nomen nudum) Testudo abrupta Grandidier, 1868:377 Geochelone abrupta Pritchard, 1967 Asterochelys abrupta Bour, 1980 Dipsochelys abrupta...
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