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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.
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.
The African spurred tortoise can grow to 30 inches in length and “some males even reach 200 pounds,” according to the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance. They live 80 to 100 years, the alliance says.
Hoss is a 35-pound sulcata tortoise, also known as African spurred tortoise, estimated to be around 8 years old. The large tortoises can live up to 70 years in the wild, and from 80 to 100 years ...
Eastern Hermann's tortoise, T. hermanni boettgeri [1] Western Hermann's tortoise, T. hermanni hermanni [1] †Testudo hellenica (Miocene) Subgenus Testudo. Spur-thighed tortoise, Greek tortoise or common tortoise, T. graeca [1] Subspecies: Mediterranean spur-thighed tortoise, T. graeca graeca [1] Araxes tortoise, T. graeca armeniaca [1]
C. burchardi had a larger shell, with a length of approximately 65 to 94 cm, while C. vulcanica shell had a 61 cm. [5] It is believed that the ancestors of these tortoises could reach the eastern islands of the Canary Islands from the African continent and progressively moved to westward through that archipelago as their size also increased and ...
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.
This word refers to a large, dark-brown animal that lives in (or around) African rivers. They are renowned for their barrel-shaped bodies, enormous heads and short legs.