🐢Indian star tortoise
印度星龜（學名：Geochelone elegans）是一種陸龜科象龜屬的生物，在南亞次大陸南部的印度、巴基斯坦及斯里蘭卡的乾旱地區生活。由於印度星龜的外形美麗，龜殼呈獨特的星形放射紋，故此深受陸龜愛好者的歡迎。
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2020.
- Body mass
- 4.22 kg
- Body length
- not recorded
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 24 years
Everything we know about the Indian star tortoise
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass4.22 kgrecord 9.52 kg · ReptTraitsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
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Maximum lifespan24 yearsrecord 24 years · ReptTraitsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
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DietHerbivorousReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleCathemeralReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Foraging modeACTReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l4.2 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 Indian star tortoise yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classTestudines
- ›familyTestudinidae
- ›genusGeochelone
- ›speciesGeochelone elegans
- orderTurtles & tortoises · Testudines
- superfamilyTestudinoidea
- familyTestudinidae
- genusGeochelone
All 13 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- orderTurtles & tortoises · Testudines
- suborderCryptodira
- superfamilyTestudinoidea
- familyTestudinidae
- genusGeochelone
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