🐢African spurred tortoise
A tartaruga-de-esporas-africana (Centrochelys sulcata) é uma espécie de tartaruga cryptodira da família Testudinidae e o único membro do gênero Centrochelys. Anteriormente, fazia parte do gênero Geochelone. Habitava grande parte do território do norte africano, na parte sul do deserto do Saara e no Sahel, mas que atualmente só pode ser vista dentro de reservas de proteção ambiental. Estão em via de extinção devido ao processo de urbanização de seu habitat, às capturas para efeitos de comércio como animal de estimação, e também pelo uso de sua carne na alimentação local e medicina tradicional[carece de fontes]?. Devido ao seu tamanho, é a terceira maior tartaruga terrestre do mundo e a maior das continentais (não nativa de arquipélagos).
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.
- Body mass
- 43 kg
- Body length
- not recorded
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 54 years
Everything we know about the African spurred tortoise
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass43 kgrecord 81 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 lifespan54 yearsrecord 100 years · ReptTraitsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
DietHerbivorousReptTraitsDetails ↓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 length1.01 mmaximum recordedReptTraitsOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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By sex
- Female0.58 mReptTraitsv1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024)
- Male1.01 mReptTraitsv1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024)
Volume l43 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 African spurred tortoise yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classTestudines
- ›familyTestudinidae
- ›genusCentrochelys
- ›speciesCentrochelys sulcata
- orderTurtles & tortoises · Testudines
- superfamilyTestudinoidea
- familyTestudinidae
- genusCentrochelys
All 13 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- orderTurtles & tortoises · Testudines
- suborderCryptodira
- superfamilyTestudinoidea
- familyTestudinidae
- genusCentrochelys
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