Yellow-footed tortoise: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the yellow-footed tortoise lives – recorded in 7 countries, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Chelonoidis denticulatus
Group	Turtles & tortoises
Status	Vulnerable (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	7 countries
Continents	South America
Class	Reptile
Order	Testudines
Family	Testudinidae

Where does the yellow-footed tortoise live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the yellow-footed tortoise in 7 countries and territories across South America. Wikidata gives its range as: Brazil, Marabá, Venezuela.

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

Is the yellow-footed tortoise endangered?

The yellow-footed tortoise’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Vulnerable” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the yellow-footed tortoise?

The yellow-footed tortoise (Chelonoidis denticulatus) is a reptile in the order Testudines and the family Testudinidae, genus Chelonoidis. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the 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.

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), typical size 60 cm (23.6 in)).

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Yellow-footed tortoise (revision 1360475098), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q18867 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).