Animalia > Chordata > Testudines > Testudinidae > Indotestudo > Indotestudo forstenii

Indotestudo forstenii (Travancore Tortoise, Forsten’s Tortoise; Travancore Tortoise, Forsten’s Tortoise)

Synonyms: Testudo forstenii

Wikipedia Abstract

Forsten's tortoise (Indotestudo forstenii ) is one of three tortoise species placed in the genus Indotestudo, the others being the elongated tortoise (I. elongata), and travancore tortoise (I.travancorica).
View Wikipedia Record: Indotestudo forstenii

Endangered Species

Status: Critically Endangered
View IUCN Record: Indotestudo forstenii

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  3.704 lbs (1.68 kg)
Female Weight [1]  2.134 lbs (968 g)
Gestation [1]  5 months
Litter Size [2]  3
Litters / Year [2]  2
Maximum Longevity [3]  33 years

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Kudremukh National Park II 202772 Karnataka, India  
Lore Lindu National Park II 577959 Sulawesi, Indonesia  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Wallacea East Timor, Indonesia No
Western Ghats and Sri Lanka India, Sri Lanka No

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Turtles and Tortoises Demographic Traits Database for CITES Listed Species ver. 01, Species360 (2018)
♦ 3de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0