Reptiles > Turtles & Tortoises
OverviewThe Marginated Tortoise (Testudo marginata) is the largest native land tortoise in Europe, an impressive, heavy-shelled chelonian belonging to the family Testudinidae. Native primarily to the rocky limestone hillsides, dry shrublands, and olive orchards of...
Reptiles > Turtles & Tortoises
The Leopard Tortoise (Stigmochelys pardalis, formerly Geochelone pardalis) is the fourth-largest tortoise species in the world and the second-largest tortoise native to the African continent, surpassed in size only by the African spurred tortoise (sulcata)....
Reptiles > Turtles & Tortoises
The Aldabra Giant Tortoise (Aldabrachelys gigantea) is one of the largest living chelonians on Earth and the undisputed king of Indian Ocean megafauna, belonging to the family Testudinidae. Native exclusively to the isolated, pristine coral atoll of Aldabra in the...
Reptiles > Turtles & Tortoises
The African Spurred Tortoise (Centrochelys sulcata), universally known in global culture and the reptile community as the Sulcata Tortoise, is the third-largest tortoise species in the world and the single largest mainland tortoise on Earth, belonging to the family...
