Species Profile
Testudo
Tortoise
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
ClassReptilia
OrderUnknown
FamilyUnknown
Introduction
Testudo inhabits dry land habitats.
It is herbivorous and long-lived.
Common land turtle.
Size & Structure
01
Dome-shaped shell
02
Stout limbs
03
Rough scaly skin
04
Brown or yellow shell
Testudo — 3D Model
General Features
- Coelom
- Coelomate
- Body plan
- Tube within a tube body plan (Deuterostomous)
- Germ layer
- Triploblastic
- Metamerism
- Absent
- Body symmetry
- Bilateral
- Fertilization
- Internal
- Digestion type
- Complete
- Nervous system
- Well developed
- Excretory organ
- Kidneys
- Body temperature
- Poikilothermic, stenohaline
- Circulatory type
- Closed circulation, incomplete double
- Development type
- Direct
- Respiratory type
- Pulmonary respiration
- Mode of excretion
- Uricotelism
- Circulation system
- Closed
- Skeleton structure
- Endoskeleton with exoskeletal shell
- Level of Organisation
- Organ system level
- Regulation of Osmosis
- Osmoregulator
Ecology
Seed dispersal
Herbivore in ecosystem
Soil aeration
Economic Importance
Pet trade importance
Conservation value
Educational use