Overview
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Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Elongate Tortoise, Elongated Tortoise, Pineapple Tortoise, Red-Nosed Tortoise, Yellow Tortoise, Yellow-Headed Tortoise
Common Names in French:
Tortue à Tête Jaune
Common Names in German:
Gelbkopf-Landschildkrote, Gelbkopf-Landschildkröte
Description
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Habitat
Biome: Terrestrial
Taxonomy
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- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
()
- (Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Bateson, 1885
- Chordates
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
()
- Cuvier, 1812
- Vertebrates
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
()
- Auct.
- Jawed Vertebrates
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
()
- Goodrich, 1930
- Class:
Reptilia
()
- Reptiles
- Subclass:
Anapsida
()
- Order:
Testudines
()
- Suborder:
Cryptodira
()
- Superfamily:
Testudinoidea
()
- Family:
Testudinidae
()
- Genus:
Indotestudo
()
- Lindholm, 1929
- Specific name:
elongata
- Blyth
- Scientific name: - Indotestudo elongata Blyth
- Specific name:
elongata
- Blyth
- Genus:
Indotestudo
(
- Family:
Testudinidae
(
- Superfamily:
Testudinoidea
(
- Suborder:
Cryptodira
(
- Order:
Testudines
(
- Subclass:
Anapsida
(
- Class:
Reptilia
(
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
(
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
(
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
(
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Unambiguous Synonyms
- Geochelone /i> (Indotestudo) Elongata — Alderton 1988
- Geochelone elongata Alderton 1988
- Geochelone elongata Pritchard 1979
- Indotestudo elongata — Bour 1980
- Indotestudo elongata — Cox Et Al. 1998: 132
- Indotestudo elongata — Manthey & Grossmann 1997: 456
- Indotestudo elongata — Obst 1985
- Indotestudo elongata — Ziegler 2002: 157
- Testudo elongata Blyth 1854
- Testudo elongata — Gray 1857: 342
- Testudo parallelus Annandale 1913
Notes
Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: Uetz P.
Similar Species
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Members of the genus Indotestudo
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 4 species and subspecies in this genus:
I. elongata (Yellow-Headed Tortoise) · I. forsteni · I. forstenii (Forsten’s Tortoise) · I. travancorica (Travancore Tortoise)
More Info
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Further Reading
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- Alderton (1988) Facts on File, New York.
- Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (compilers and editors) 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
- Blyth (1854) J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 22 [1853]: 639-655
- Bour (1980) Bull. Mus. natl. Hist. nat. Paris (4) 2 (2): 541-546
- Chan et al. (1999) Bushmaster Publications, Würselen, Gemany, 240 pp.
- Cox et al. (1998) Phot. Guide Snakes Rept. Penins. Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand.
- Eberling (2001) Elaphe 9 (2): 2-10
- Ernst & Barbour (1989) Turtles of the World.
- Frazier (1992) Bombay Natur. Hist. Soc., J. 89(1): 45-54.
- Gray (1857) Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (2) 19: 342-344
- Groombridge, B. (ed.) 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
- Grossmann et al. (2001) Sauria 23 (1): 25-40
- Hilton-Taylor, C. (compiler). 2000. 2000 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
- IUCN. 1990. 1990 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
- IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1988. 1988 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
- IUCN/SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group and Asian Turtle Trade Working Group. 2000. Changes to 1996 IUCN Red List Status of Asian Turtle Species. In: P.P. van Dijk, B.L. Stuart and A.G.J. Rhodin (eds). Asian Turtle Trade: Proceedings of a Workshop on Conservation and Trade of Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises in Asia, pp.156-164. Chelonian Research Monographs 2. Chelonian Research Foundation, Lunenburg, Massachusetts, USA.
- Iverson et al. (2001) Hamadryad 26 (2):271-274
- Iverson, J. B. 1992. A Revised Checklist with Distribution Maps of the Turtles of the World. Privately Printed. Richmond, Indiana. ISBN: 0-9617431-0-5.
- Kuchling (1995) Chelonian Conservation and Biology 1 (3): 223-226
- Lehr et al. (2003) Reptilia (GB) (30): 64-71
- Manthey & Grossmann (1997) Amph. & Rep. Südostasiens. NTV (Münster)
- McCord et al. (2004) Reptilia (GB) (33): 35-38
- Pauwels et al. (2000) Dumerilia 4 (2): 123-154
- Pauwels et al. (2003) Natural History Journal of Chulalongkorn University 3 (1): 23-53
- Platt et al. (2001) Chelonian Conservation and Biology. 4(1):172-177
- Pritchard (1979) T.F.H. Publications, Neptune, New Jersey: 895 p.
- Ziegler (2002) Amphibien und Reptilien ... in Vietnam. NTV (Münster), 342 pp.
- Zug et al. (1998) Hamadryad 23 (2): 111-120
Notes
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Contributors
- Asian Turtle Trade Working Group 2000. Indotestudo elongata. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org . Downloaded on 20 October 2006.
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed October 3, 2006.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 27, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
- Uetz, Peter. The Reptile Database
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 27, 2008:
- Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2540614
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Rep-15931
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 551950
- IUCN ID: 10824
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 6111
