🐢Aldabra giant tortoise
La tortue géante des Seychelles (Aldabrachelys gigantea), aussi appelé tortue géante d'Aldabra, est une espèce de tortues terrestres de la famille des Testudinidae.
Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
IUCN Red List assessment, 1996.
- Body mass
- 117 kg
- Body length
- not recorded
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 152 years
This animal is extinct
Assessed Extinct on the IUCN Red List, 1996. Everything on this page — the measurements, the photos, the videos — is a record of an animal that is gone.
Everything we know about the Aldabra giant tortoise
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass117 kgrecord 117 kg · ReptTraitsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Maximum lifespan152 yearsrecord 187 years · ReptTraitsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Gestation20 yearsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
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DietOmnivorousReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleCathemeralReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Foraging modeACTReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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VenomousNoReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Snout–vent length1.22 mmaximum recordedReptTraitsOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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By sex
- Female0.91 mReptTraitsv1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024)
Volume l117 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
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 Aldabra giant tortoise yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classTestudines
- ›familyTestudinidae
- ›genusAldabrachelys
- ›speciesAldabrachelys gigantea
- orderTurtles & tortoises · Testudines
- superfamilyTestudinoidea
- familyTestudinidae
- genusAldabrachelys
All 13 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- orderTurtles & tortoises · Testudines
- suborderCryptodira
- superfamilyTestudinoidea
- familyTestudinidae
- genusAldabrachelys
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