sulcata tortoise for sale near me

Taxonomy and etymology of sulcata tortoise

The African spurred tortoise is apart of the:

• Animalia kingdom
• Bilateral Subkingdom
• Deuterostomia Infrakingdom
• Chordata Phylum
• Vertebrata Subphylum
• Gnathostomata Infraphylum
• Tetrapoda superclass
• Reptilia class
• Testudines order
• Crytodira suborder
• Testudinoidea superfamily
• Testudinidae family
• Centrochelys genus

The taxonomic species name is Centrochelys sulcata and is otherwise known as sulcata tortoise for sale near me Its specific name sulcata is from the Latin word sulcus meaning “furrow” and refers to the furrows on the tortoise’s scales.^[4] At first the species was labeled as Testudo sulcata. As time has passed since the species was first classified, C. sulcata has been referred to by several different designations.