Speckled Padloper Tortoise
- Speckled Padloper Tortoise
Taxobox
name = Speckled Padloper Tortoise
status = NT
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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
ordo = Testudines
subordo = Cryptodira
superfamilia = Testudinoidea
familia = Testudinidae
genus = "Homopus"
species = "H. signatus"
binomial = "Homopus signatus"
binomial_authority = 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, which feeds on small succulent plants, is so small that even birds attack it.
References
*Animal, Smithsonian Institution, 2005, pg 374
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