Testudo graeca

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• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
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• Notes

Overview

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Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 2,206 meters (0 to 7,238 feet).[1]

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Furculachelys nabeulensis • Kstle & Kabisch 1996: 148 • Pers. Comm.) • Testudo anamurensis • Testudo antakyensis • Testudo armeniaca • Testudo buxtoni • Testudo flavominimaralis • Testudo floweri • Testudo graeca • Testudo graeca Dumril & Bibron 1835: 49 • Testudo graeca Engelmann Et Al. 1993 • Testudo graeca Lapparent De Broin 2001 • Testudo graeca Schleich • Testudo ibera • Testudo ibera PALLAS 1814< /i> (Fide Khalikov • Testudo ibera Boulenger 1836 • Testudo ibera Werner 1899: 376 • Testudo mauritanica Dumril & Bibron 1835: 45 • Testudo nikolskii • Testudo pallasi • Testudo pers • Testudo perses Perl 2001 • Testudo pusilla Linnaeus 1758: 198

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Comment: Holotype: The life-sized colored figure in Plate 204 of Edwards 1751 according to Loveridge and Williams 1957:264-265. Erroneously reported from Egypt (SCHLEICH et al. 1996), but does not occur there (BUSKIRK 1996). Testudo graeca ibera has been reported to produce viable hybrids with Testudo horsfieldii, T. hermanni boettgeri, and T. marginata (KABISCH 2001, STEMMLER-GYGER 1963, 1964, HEIMANN 1986, MERTENS 1968 and others). Testudo graeca has been reported from the Canary Islands but these specimens are most likely escaped pets that do not form viable populations (A. VILADO, pers. comm. ). Testudo buxtoni has been considered as valid species by PIEH et al. (2002). PERL (2002) described T. perses sp. nov. but its diagnosis is extremely vague (greater average length , longer plastron, a narrower nuchal scute than T. terrestris etc. ), so we [i.e. P.U.] preliminarily consider this species as a synonym of T. graeca. According to Kuyl et al. (2002) only 4 subspecies are recognized: T. g. graeca of North Africa; T. g. ibera of the Balkans, Greece, Turkey, Iran, and Russia; and T. g. terrestris of Libya, Israel, Egypt, and Syria. Little is known about the fourth subspecies, T. g. zarudnyi, which is restricted to the Central Iranian Plateau and Afghanistan. A morphological study suggested that the first three subspecies should be elevated to full species level (Gmira, 1993). More recent genetic analyses by Kuyl et al. (2005) indicated that only 2 subspecies are clearly distinguishable, T. g. graeca and T. g. ibera. Note that the paper by KUYL et al. (2002) was later criticized by PERL (2004).

Similar Species

Members of the genus Testudo

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 14 species and subspecies in this genus:

T. graeca (Common Tortoise) · T. graeca anamurensis (Spur-Thighed Tortoise) · T. graeca graeca (Mediterranean Spur-Thighed Tortoise) · T. graeca var. boettgeri (Mediterranean Spur-Thighed Tortoise) · T. hermanni (Hermann's Tortoise) · T. hermanni hermanni (Western Hermann's Tortoise) · T. horsfieldii (Afghan Tortoise) · T. graeca subsp. ibera (Mediterranean Spur-Thighed Tortoise) · T. kleinmanni (Egyptian Tortoise) · T. marginata (Marginated Tortoise) · T. marginata marginata (Marginated Tortoise) · T. graeca subsp. graeca (Mediterranean Spur-Thighed Tortoise) · T. nabeulensis (Nabeul Tortoise) · T. werneri (Negev Tortoise)

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• California Academy of Sciences: CAS Herpetology Collection Catalog
• European Environment Agency: EUNIS
• GBIF-Spain: Museu de Ciències Naturals, Zoologia, Barcelona: MCNC-Cord
• Marine Science Institute, UCSB: Paleobiology Database
• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
• SysTax
• SysTax: Staatliches Museum fur Tierkunde
• University of Navarra, Museum of Zoology: Museum of Zoology, University of Navarra
• Yale University Peabody Museum: Peabody Herp Collection DiGIR provider Service

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 1
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Rep-7111
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 551865
• IUCN ID: 245784
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 12081

Footnotes

1. Mean = 606.640 meters (1,990.289 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,028.630 based on 11 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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