Testudo graeca

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Habitat and Ecology

Conservation Actions

Bibliography

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	REPTILIA	TESTUDINES	TESTUDINIDAE

Scientific Name:

Testudo graeca

Species Authority:

Linnaeus, 1758

Infra-specific Taxa Assessed:

See Testudo graeca ssp. nikolskii

Common Name/s:

English	–	Common Tortoise, Greek Tortoise, Moorish Tortoise, Spur-thighed Tortoise
French	–	Tortue Mauresque
Spanish	–	Tortuga Mora

Synonym/s:

Furculachelys nabeulensis Highfield, 1990

Testudo anamurensis Weissinger, 1987

Testudo antakyensis Perälä, 1996

Testudo armeniaca Chkhikvadze & Bakradze, 1991

Testudo buxtoni Boulenger, 1921

Testudo flavominimaralis Highfield & Martin, 1989 (nomen dubium

Testudo floweri Bodenheimer, 1935

Testudo graeca subspecies cyrenaica Pieh & Perälä, 2002

Testudo graeca subspecies soussensis Pieh, 2001

Testudo ibera Pallas, 1814

Testudo nikolskii Chkhikvadze & Bakradze, 1991

Testudo pallasi Chkhikvadze & Bakradze, 2002

Testudo perses Perälä, 2002

Testudo terrestris Forsskål, 1775

Testudo whitei Bennett in White, 1836

Testudo zarudnyi Nikolsky, 1896

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:	Vulnerable A1cd ver 2.3
Year Published:	1996
Date Assessed:	1996-08-01
Annotations:	Needs updating
Assessor/s:	Tortoise & Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group

Geographic Range [top]

Countries:	Native: Albania; Algeria; Armenia (Armenia); Azerbaijan; Bulgaria; Egypt; Georgia; Greece; Iran, Islamic Republic of; Iraq; Israel; Jordan; Libya; Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of; Moldova; Morocco; Romania; Russian Federation; Spain; Syrian Arab Republic; Tunisia; Turkey; Ukraine Introduced: Cyprus; France; Italy
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Habitat and Ecology [top]

Systems:	Terrestrial

Systems:

Terrestrial

Conservation Actions [top]

Conservation Actions:	It is listed on CITES Appendix II.

Conservation Actions:

It is listed on CITES Appendix II.

Bibliography [top]

	Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland.

Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland.

Citation:	Tortoise & Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group 1996. Testudo graeca. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 12 December 2013.
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