Yellow-footed tortoise

The yellow-footed tortoise (Chelonoidis denticulatus), also known as the Brazilian giant tortoise, is a species of tortoise in the family Testudinidae and is closely related to the red-footed tortoise (C. carbonarius). It is found in the Amazon Basin of South America. The species name has often been misspelled as denticulata, an error introduced in the 1980s when Chelonoidis was elevated to genus and mistakenly treated as feminine, an error recognized and fixed in 2017.

Yellow-footed tortoise
Yellow-footed tortoise, Yasuni National Park, Ecuador
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Superfamily: Testudinoidea
Family: Testudinidae
Genus: Chelonoidis
Species:
C. denticulatus
Binomial name
Chelonoidis denticulatus
(Linnaeus, 1766)
Synonyms
  • Testudo denticulata Linneasus 1766
  • Testudo tabulata Walbaum, 1782(nomen illegitimum)
  • Testudo tessellata Schneider, 1792
  • Testudo tabulata Schoepff, 1793
  • Testudo terrestris americana Schweigger, 1812
  • Testudo terrestris brasiliensis Schweigger, 1812
  • Testudo terrestris var. cayennensis Schweigger, 1812
  • Testudo terrestris surinamensis Schweigger, 1812
  • Chersine denticulata Merrem, 1820
  • Chersine tessellata Merrem, 1820
  • Testudo cagado Spix, 1824
  • Testudo hercules Spix, 1824
  • Testudo sculpta Spix, 1824
  • Chersine tabulata Gravenhorst, 1829
  • Testudo planata Gmelin, 1831 (nomen nudum)
  • Testudo foveolata Schinz, 1833 (nomen nudum)
  • Geochelone (Chelonoidis) tabulata Fitzinger, 1835
  • Geochelone (Geochelone) denticulata Fitzinger, 1835
  • Chelonoides tabulata Agassiz, 1857
  • Chelonoidis tabulata Agassiz, 1857
  • Chelonoidis denticulata Fróes, 1957
  • Chelonoides denticulata Obst, 1980
  • Geochelone denticulta Richard, 1999 (ex errore)

With an average length of 40 cm (15.75 in) and the largest known specimen at 94 cm (37 in), this is the sixth-largest tortoise species on Earth, after the Galapagos tortoise, the Aldabra tortoise, the African spurred tortoise (Geochelone sulcata, typical size 76 cm (30 in)), the leopard tortoise (Stigmochelys pardalis), and the Asian forest tortoise (Manouria emys emys, typical size 60 cm (23.6 in)).

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