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Testudo graeca  Linnaeus, 1758
Taxonomic Serial No.: 551865

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Species  
  Synonym(s):    
  Common Name(s): Spur-thighed Tortoise [English]
  
    Moorish Tortoise [English]
  
       
  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
  Data Quality Indicators:    
  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomDeuterostomia   
          PhylumChordata  – cordés, cordado, chordates  
             SubphylumVertebrata  – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates  
                InfraphylumGnathostomata   
                   SuperclassTetrapoda   
                      ClassReptilia Laurenti, 1768 – répteis, reptiles, Reptiles  
                         OrderTestudines Batsch, 1788 – tortues, Turtles, Terrapins, Tortoises  
                            SuborderCryptodira Cope, 1868  
                               SuperfamilyTestudinoidea Fitzinger, 1826  
                                  FamilyTestudinidae Batsch, 1788 – Tortoises  
                                     GenusTestudo Linnaeus, 1758 – Palearctic Tortoises  
                                        SpeciesTestudo graeca Linnaeus, 1758 – Spur-thighed Tortoise, Moorish Tortoise  
    Direct Children:  
                                           Subspecies Testudo graeca armeniaca Chkhikvadze and Bakradze, 1991 – Araxes Tortoise 
                                           Subspecies Testudo graeca buxtoni Boulenger, 1921 – Buxton's Tortoise 
                                           Subspecies Testudo graeca cyrenaica Pieh and Perälä, 2002 – Cyrenaican Spur-thighed Tortoise 
                                           Subspecies Testudo graeca graeca Linnaeus, 1758 – Mediterranean Spur-thighed Tortoise 
                                           Subspecies Testudo graeca ibera Pallas, 1814 – Asia Minor Tortoise 
                                           Subspecies Testudo graeca marokkensis Pieh and Perälä, 2004 – Morocco Tortoise 
                                           Subspecies Testudo graeca nabeulensis (Highfield, 1990) – Nabeul Tortoise 
                                           Subspecies Testudo graeca soussensis Pieh, 2001 – Souss Valley Tortoise 
                                           Subspecies Testudo graeca terrestris Forskål, 1775 – Mesopotamian Tortoise 
                                           Subspecies Testudo graeca zarudnyi Nikolsky, 1896 – Iranian Tortoise 
       

 References
       
  Expert(s):    
  Expert: Roy W. McDiarmid  
  Notes: U.S. Geological Survey, Biological Resources Division, Patuxent Wildlife Research Center   
  Reference for: Testudo graeca    
       
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  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Iverson, John B.  
  Publication Date: 1992   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: A Revised Checklist with Distribution Maps of the Turtles of the World   
  Page(s): xiii + 363   
  Publisher: Privately Printed   
  Publication Place: Richmond, Indiana   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-9617431-0-5   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Testudo graeca   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Turtle Taxonomy Working Group [van Dijk, P. P., J. Iverson, A. Rhodin, H. Shaffer, and R. Bour]  
  Publication Date: 2014   
  Article/Chapter Title: Turtles of the World, 7th Edition: Annotated Checklist of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution with maps, and Conservation Status   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Chelonian Research Monographs, no. 5, v. 7   
  Page(s): 329-479   
  Publisher:    
  Publication Place:    
  ISBN/ISSN: 1088-7105   
  Notes: doi:10.3854/crm.5.000.checklist.v7.2014 - Available online at http://www.iucn-tftsg.org/cbftt/   
  Reference for: Testudo graeca, Moorish Tortoise [English], Spur-thighed Tortoise [English]   
       

 Geographic Information
       
  Geographic Division: Europe & Northern Asia (excluding China)  
    Africa  
       
  Jurisdiction/Origin:    
 

 

    

 Comments
       
  Comment: IUCN: Vulnerable A1cd (1996). CITES: Appendix II, as Testudinidae spp.  
 

 

    

 
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