🐢Aldabra giant tortoise
Aldabrasköldpadda (Aldabrachelys gigantea) är en landsköldpadda som blir upp till 120 centimeter lång. Den lever på Aldabra i Seychellerna och har levt där i många år. IUCN kategoriserar arten globalt som sårbar. Den delas in i fyra underarter, av vilka bara en (Aldabrachelys gigantea gigantea) ännu lever i vilt tillstånd. Av de övriga underarterna är en utdöd (Aldabrachelys gigantea daudinii) och två utdöda i vilt tillstånd (Aldabrachelys gigantea arnoldi och Aldabrachelys gigantea hololissa). Ibland anses underarterna ha artstatus. Det har tidigare inte funnits några rovdjur på ön, varför de mycket långsamma djuren har kunnat leva där i lugn och ro. Men sedan människan infört hundar och katter på ön är sköldpaddorna inte lika säkra. Aldabrasköldpaddan blir mycket gammal, troligen uppemot tvåhundra år.
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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 ↑
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Record: largest individual on record
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Maximum lifespan152 yearsrecord 187 years · ReptTraitsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Record: largest individual on record
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Gestation20 yearsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
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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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