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Gopherus agassizii🐢

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SpeciesTestudinidae
Reptiles

🐢Desert tortoise

Gopherus agassizii (Cooper, 1861)

Želva Agassizova (Gopherus agassizii) je želva z čeledi želvovitých. Své jméno želva Agassizova získala na počest přírodopisce Louise Agassize.

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≈ 1/22nd of your weight
Also called
Gopherus agassizii, Agassiz's desert tortoise, Mojave desert tortoise
Conservation status
CRCritically endangered

IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
2.78 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
63 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Desert tortoise

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
2.78 kgrecord 11 kg · ReptTraits
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Maximum lifespan
63 yearsrecord 100 years · ReptTraits
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Gestation
118 days
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Litter size
about 8
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Diet
Herbivorous
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Activity cycle
Cathemeral
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Foraging mode
ACT
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Venomous
No
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Snout–vent length
0.36 mmaximum recorded
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
2.8 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Desert tortoise yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classTestudines
  4. ›familyTestudinidae
  5. ›genusGopherus
  6. ›speciesGopherus agassizii
Full lineage
  1. orderTurtles & tortoises · Testudines
  2. superfamilyTestudinoidea
  3. familyTestudinidae
  4. genusGopherus
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. orderTurtles & tortoises · Testudines
  10. suborderCryptodira
  11. superfamilyTestudinoidea
  12. familyTestudinidae
  13. genusGopherus
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Gopherus agassizii (es), Tortue du désert (fr), Пустынный западный гофер (ru), tortuga del desert (ca), kaliforniai üregteknős (hu), Гофер Агассіса (uk) … and 20 more languages
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