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The African spurred tortoise (Centrochelys sulcata), also called the sulcata tortoise, is an endangered species of tortoise inhabiting the southern edge of the Sahara Desert, the Sahel, in Africa. It is the largest mainland species of tortoise in Africa, and the third-largest in the world, after the Galapagos tortoise and Aldabra giant tortoise.
African spurred tortoise or Sulcata tortoise: Centrochelys sulcata: southern edge of the Sahara Desert: Third largest species of tortoise in the world; the largest non-island species. [1] African helmeted turtle Marsh terrapin: Pelomedusa subrufa: Very wide range Aldabra giant tortoise: Aldabrachelys gigantea: Seychelles Angonoka tortoise ...
Centrochelys is a genus of tortoise.It contains one living species, the African spurred tortoise (Centrochelys sulcata), native to the Sahel and adjacent areas. A number of fossil species have been attributed to this genus, but their placement in the genus is considered equivocal.
A 100-year-old African tortoise named Biscuit has been reunited with his family after being rescued from a canal, according to the Parish of Ascension in Louisiana.
Underside of carapace. Aldabrachelys grandidieri was a giant tortoise, one of the largest in the world, measuring about 125 cm (49 in) in carapace length.It was originally one of the six endemic tortoise species of Madagascar (two large Aldabrachelys; two medium Astrochelys; two small Pyxis).
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Tortoise fossils were described but not named from the crater in 1935. [2] Four further bones from a private collector supposed to have been found in the same crater were described in 1998 as a new species similar to the extant Testudo calcarata (= Centrochelys sulcata ), differentiated from C. sulcata by its smaller size and lesser robusticity.
With an average length of 40 cm (15.75 in) and the largest known specimen at 94 cm (37 in), this is the sixth-largest tortoise species on Earth, after the Galapagos tortoise, the Aldabra tortoise, the African spurred tortoise (Geochelone sulcata, typical size 76 cm (30 in)), the leopard tortoise (Stigmochelys pardalis), and the Asian forest ...