tortoises
testudinidae latin

The tortoises passed on around to the other side of the course.

Some of the tortoises are very old and big in size.

The start tortoises were also kept in a separate area.

Sometimes we found tortoises, and those of us with gardens took them home.

Hanging around is another thing tortoises are very good at.

It was a race of tortoises at record stores last week.

Fast was a word particularly associated with tortoises because they were not it.

Along the beach now, the tortoises are becoming hard to find.

The only rules are along the lines of "Don't sit on the tortoises".

The tortoises do not appear to be in peak health.

I ask her if she knows that these tortoises are endangered.

Care for these tortoises requires a good deal of commitment.

These tortoises are capable of living over 100 years in the wild.

These giant tortoises were very large and slow, thus making them easy game.

Occurrence in other species, including tortoises, have been reported as well.

The idea is to team up many tortoises, which together can speed past their rival.

Adult tortoises can survive a year or more without access to water.

Why do we need giant tortoises on the planet, anyway?

Charles Andrews first discovered these tortoises in the early 20th century.

This is a major threat to the tortoises remaining in the wild.

She won't talk about where the tortoises go from there, or who does the exporting.

Some of the shapes were no larger than giant tortoises.

It looked like a frog sitting between two giant white tortoises.

They would then be asked questions about the tortoises.

Does she know what the nonlocal people who buy tortoises do with them?

The majority of fossil and molecular data support their close relationship to the family Testudinidae.

Pyxis is a genus of turtle in the Testudinidae family.

The parent family for Astrochelys is Testudinidae, the tortoise family.

Family Testudinidae (true tortoises)

Derivations of the word have also been used in scientific nomenclature related to the reptile, such as the order Testudine and the family Testudinidae.

The Chaco tortoise (Chelonoidis petersi) is a turtle from the family Testudinidae.

Patterns in the distributions of Southern African terrestrial tortoises (Cryptodira: Testudinidae).

The Home's hinge-back tortoise(Kinixys homeana) is a species of turtle in the Testudinidae family.

The Réunion giant tortoise (Cylindraspis indica) was a species of giant tortoise in the Testudinidae family.

Although the word "tortoise" is used by biologists in reference to the family Testudinidae only, in colloquial usage, it is often used to describe many land-dwelling Testudines.

Land tortoise types in the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Histoire with comments on nomenclature and systematics (Reptilia: Testudines: Testudinidae).

Hadrianus is an extinct genus of tortoise belonging to the Testudinidae found in the United States and Spain and believed to be the oldest true tortoise known.

TESTUDINIDAE Chersina angulata (Angulate Tortoise)

Of the 58 species belonging to the Testudinidae family, 33 species are Threatened, 18 are either Endangered or Critically Endangered, 1 is Extinct in the wild and 7 species are Extinct.

American English tends to use the word "tortoise" for land-dwelling species, including members of Testudinidae, as well as other species, such as box tortoises, though use of "turtle" for all chelonians is as common.

In general use, the term tortoise usually refers to any land-dwelling turtle, although in Great Britain, tortoise refers to any turtle other than a sea turtle, and scientifically tortoises are the Testudinidae family, only one of the 14 extant turtle families.

Iverson, John B., Phillip Q. Spinks, H. Bradley Shaffer, William P. McCord and Indraneil Das 2001 Phylogenetic relationships among the Asian tortoises of the genus Indotestudo (Reptilia: Testudines: Testudinidae).