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African spurred tortoise

species of reptile
Taxon taxon Q301016

Facts

12 properties
Instance of
taxon
Short name
C. sulcata[9]
CITES Appendix
Appendix II of CITES[11]
Diel cycle
diurnality[12]
Endemic to
Sahara, Sahel[4][5]
IUCN conservation status
endangered[2]
Original combination
Testudo sulcata[7]
Parent taxon
Centrochelys[3]
Taxon common name
African spurred tortoise[10]
Taxon name
Centrochelys sulcata[6]
Taxon rank
species[1]
Taxon synonym
Geochelone sulcata[8]
🏷️ Also known as
en African spurred tortoise en Centrochelys sulcata ar سلحفاة سودانية cs želva ostruhatá de Centrochelys sulcata de Geochelone sulcata de Spornschildkröte es Tortuga de espolones africana fa لاک‌پشت ستاره‌دار آفریقایی fi kannuskilpikonna fi Geochelone sulcata fr Centrochelys sulcata fr Geochelone sulcata fr Testudo calcarata fr Testudo radiata senegalensis fr Testudo sulcata fr Tortue sillonnee fr Tortue sillonnée he Geochelone Sulcata he צב דרבוני
🔖 Identifiers · 22
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Geochelone sulcata -Oakland Zoo -feeding-8a.jpg ↗
BOLD Systems taxon ID
758735
CITES Species+ ID
31025
CalPhotos taxon ID
Centrochelys+sulcata
Catalogue of Life ID
S9KW
EASIN ID
R18162
Freebase ID
/m/05gbdz
GBIF taxon ID
2441533
INaturalist taxon ID
40089
IRMNG ID
10948912
ITIS TSN
949761
IUCN taxon ID
163423
Show all 22 identifiers +10
Invasive.org species ID
56287
KBpedia ID
AfricanSpurredTortoise
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
2910895052
NCBI taxonomy ID
101698
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007549614605171
Open Tree of Life ID
1050325
TAXREF ID
649840
The Reptile Database ID
genus=Centrochelys&species=sulcata
Topic's main category
Category:Centrochelys sulcata
UBio ID
8064164

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🔗 Connections
← Species kept 11
Honolulu Zoo, Rabat Zoo, Colchester Zoo, Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, Oakland Zoo, Silesian Zoological Garden, Brevard Zoo, Dakota Zoo +3 more
Endemic to 2
Sahara, Sahel
Diel cycle 1
diurnality
IUCN conservation status 1
endangered
Instance of 1
taxon
Parent taxon 1
Centrochelys
Taxon rank 1
species
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Honolulu Zoo

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [1] ↑ . Reptile Database. wikidata.org.
  2. [2] ↑ . The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022.2. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . Reptile Database. wikidata.org.
  4. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [6] ↑ . Reptile Database. wikidata.org.
  7. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [10] ↑ . ARKive. wikidata.org.
  11. [11] ↑ . Species+. wikidata.org.
  12. [12] ↑ . Out of the dark: 350 million years of conservatism and evolution in diel activity patterns in vertebrates. wikidata.org.

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  1. 4d ago · 高晶 · 2026-11-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'arz', 'bg', 'ca', 'ceb', 'commons', 'cs', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'eu', 'fa',
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  2. 7w ago · Maqdisi · 2026-09-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Taxon range map image → African spurred tortoise (Centrochelys sulcata) IUCN range 2
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Taxon range map image: African spurred tortoise (Centrochelys sulcata) IUCN range 2020.svg"
  3. 23w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Taxon rank → species
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    Diel cycle → diurnality
    IUCN conservation status → endangered
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    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|1 */ National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987007549614605171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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