? African Spurred Tortoise Conservation status: Vulnerable
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptilia Order: Testudines Family: Testudinidae Genus: Geochelone Species: G. sulcata
Binomial name
Geochelone sulcata (Miller, 1779)

The African Spurred Tortoise (Geochelone sulcata) inhabits the southern edge of the Sahara desert in northern Africa. Their diet provides them with water, and they coat their skin with mud when available to cool off. When mud wallows are not available, they retreat to cooler burrows. Spurred tortoises are important to deserts because their burrows provide shelter for other animals. They do not hibernate, like many other types of tortoises, due to their natural environment being so close to the equator. They love to dig, and make very long burrows, often much damper than the ground surface, and other species frequently sublet, making dens in alcoves off the main burrow. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2560x1920, 265 KB)18 month old African Spurred Tortoise File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Phyla Porifera (sponges) Ctenophora (comb jellies) Cnidaria (coral, jellyfish, anenomes) Placozoa (trichoplax) Subregnum Bilateria (bilateral symmetry) Acoelomorpha (basal) Orthonectida (flatworms, echinoderms, etc. ... Typical Classes Subphylum Urochordata - Tunicates Ascidiacea Thaliacea Larvacea Subphylum Cephalochordata - Lancelets Subphylum Myxini - Hagfishes Subphylum Vertebrata - Vertebrates Petromyzontida - Lampreys Placodermi (extinct) Chondrichthyes - Cartilaginous fishes Acanthodii (extinct) Actinopterygii - Ray-finned fishes Actinistia - Coelacanths Dipnoi - Lungfishes Amphibia - Amphibians Reptilia - Reptiles Aves - Birds Mammalia - Mammals Chordates (phylum Chordata) include the vertebrates, together with... Orders  Crocodilia - Crocodilians  Rhynchocephalia - Tuataras  Squamata   Suborder Sauria- Lizards   Suborder Serpentes - Snakes   Suborder Amphisbaenia - Worm lizards Testudines - Turtles Superorder Dinosauria  Saurischia  Ornithischia Reptiles are tetrapods, and also are amniotes, animals whose embryos are surrounded by an amniotic membrane. ... Families See text Turtles are reptiles of the order Testudinata, most of whose body is shielded by a special bony shell developed from their ribs. ... For the band, see Tortoise (band). ... In biology, binomial nomenclature is the formal method of naming species. ... John Frederick Miller (1759 - 1796) was an English illustrator, mainly of botanical subjects. ... 1779 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Africa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ...

A live African Spurred Tortoise plays the hatchling Gamera in the upcoming film Tiniest Heroes: Gamera Gamera (ガメラ) is a giant, tusked, flying turtle from a popular series of tokusatsu kaiju films produced by Daiei Motion Picture Company in Japan. ...

This animals are not good to use as a pet, because the get very heavy. About 180 kilos.

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