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Radiated tortoise

Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Sauropsida
Order:Testudines
Suborder:Cryptodira
Family:Testudinidae
Genus:Geochelone
Species:G. radiata
Binomial name
Geochelone radiata
Shaw, 1802
The Radiated tortoise (Geochelone radiata) is a species in the genus of the geochelone tortoises. It is fairly large and considered to be one of the most beautiful tortoises in the world.[2] Although this species is native only to Southern Madagascar and mostly only found there, it can be found in the rest of this country and has been introduced to the islands of Réunion and Mauritius.[3] As the Radiated Tortoises are herbivores, grazing constitutes 80-90% of their diet, while they also eat fruits and succulent plants.[2] These tortoises are, however, endangered, mainly because of the destruction of their habitat by humans and because of poaching.[2]

The oldest tortoise ever recorded, indeed the oldest individual animal ever recorded, was a radiated tortoise, Tui Malila, which attained the age of 188.

Footnotes

1. ^ Tortoise & Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group (1996). Geochelone radiata. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 11 May 2006. Listed as Vulnerable (VU A1acd+2cd, B1+2abc v2.3)
2. ^ Egeler, 2000
3. ^ EMYSystem Species Page

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Scientific classification or biological classification is a method by which biologists group and categorize species of organisms. Scientific classification also can be called scientific taxonomy, but should be distinguished from folk taxonomy, which lacks scientific basis.
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Chordata
Bateson, 1885

Typical Classes

See below

Chordates (phylum Chordata) are a group of animals that includes the vertebrates, together with several closely related invertebrates.
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Sauropsida*
Goodrich, 1916

Subclasses
  • Anapsida
  • Diapsida
Synonyms
  • Reptilia Laurenti, 1768
Reptiles are tetrapods and amniotes, animals whose embryos are surrounded by an amniotic membrane, and members of the class
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Testudines
Linnaeus, 1758

Diversity
ca. 300 species in 14 extant families.

blue: sea turtles, black: land turtles


Suborders

Cryptodira
Pleurodira
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Cryptodira
Linnaeus, 1758

Families
  • 13, See classification


Cryptodira is the taxonomic suborder of Testudines that includes most living tortoises and turtles.
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Testudinidae

Genera

Chersina
Cylindraspis (extinct)
Dipsochelys
Geochelone
Gopherus
Homopus
Indotestudo
Kinixys
Malacochersus
Manouria

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Geochelone
Fitzinger, 1835

Species

G. carbonaria
G. chilensis
G. denticulata
G. elegans
G. gigantea
G. nigra
G. pardalis
G. platynota
G.
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binomial nomenclature is the formal system of naming species. The system is also called binominal nomenclature (particularly in zoological circles), binary nomenclature (particularly in botanical circles), or the binomial classification system.
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George Shaw (December 10, 1751 - July 22, 1813) was an English botanist and zoologist.

Shaw was born at Bierton, Buckinghamshire and was educated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, receiving his M.A. in 1772. He took up the profession of medical practitioner.
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species is one of the basic units of biological classification. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring.
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Geochelone
Fitzinger, 1835

Species

G. carbonaria
G. chilensis
G. denticulata
G. elegans
G. gigantea
G. nigra
G. pardalis
G. platynota
G.
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Testudinidae

Genera

Chersina
Cylindraspis (extinct)
Dipsochelys
Geochelone
Gopherus
Homopus
Indotestudo
Kinixys
Malacochersus
Manouria

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Motto
Tanindrazana, Fahafahana, Fandrosoana   (Malagasy)
Patrie, liberté, progrès   (French)
"Ancestral-land, Liberty, Progress"
Anthem

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Région Réunion

(Region flag) (Region logo)

Location

Administration
Capital Saint-Denis
Regional President Paul Vergès
(PCR) (since 1998)
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Motto
"Stella Clavisque Maris Indici"   (Latin)
"Star and Key of the Indian Ocean"
Anthem
Motherland
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Herbivory is a form of predation in which an organism known as an herbivore, consumes principally autotrophs[1] such as plants, algae and photosynthesizing bacteria.
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Grazing generally describes a type of predation in which an herbivore feeds on plants (such as grasses), or more broadly on a multicellular autotrophs (such as kelp). Grazing differs from true predation because the organism being eaten is not killed, and it differs from parasitism
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In nutrition, the diet is the sum of food consumed by a person or other organism. Dietary habits are the habitual decisions an individual or culture makes when choosing what foods to eat.
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Succulent plants, also known as succulents or fat plants, are water-retaining plants adapted to arid climate or soil conditions. Succulent plants store water in their leaves, stems and/or roots.
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endangered species is a population of an organism which is at risk of becoming extinct because it is either few in number, or threatened by changing environmental or predation parameters.
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Habitat (which is Latin for "it inhabits") is the area where a particular species lives. It is essentially the natural environment in which an organism lives—at least the physical environment—that surrounds (influences and is utilized by) a species population.
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