Speckled Padloper Tortoise

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iSpeckled Padloper Tortoise
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Superfamily: Testudinoidea
Family: Testudinidae
Genus: Homopus
Species: H. signatus
Binomial name
Homopus signatus
Schoepf, 1801

The Speckled padloper tortoise (Homopus signatus), is the world's smallest tortoise. Found in western South Africa, it grows to between 6 and 8 cm, with the male being smaller than the female. The tortoise feeds of off small succulent plants, and they are so small that even birds attack them.

[edit] References

  • Animal, Smithsonian Institution, 2005, pg 374
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