Red-footed tortoise
Geochelone carbonaria
Red-footed tortoises are tropical rain forest tortoises whose range covers most of tropical South America. There are several regional variants, with some large adults having a straight carapace length (SCL) of up to 16”-17” (these larger red-foots usually inhabit the tropical forests of southern Brazil, in the Pantanal range). There are possibly several sub-varieties of red-foots that will one day be separated into sub-species, and the most commonly recognised of these is the cherry-headed red-foot, or dwarf red-foot, whose SCL rarely exceeds 12” (10” being the average).
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