Global Conservation Status of Turtles and Tortoises (Order Testudines)

G. J. Rhodin, Anders; B. Stanford, Craig; Paul van Dijk, Peter; C. Eisemberg, Carla; Luiselli, Luca; A. Mittermeier, Russell; Hudson, Rick; D. Horne, Brian; V. Goode, Eric; Kuchling, Gerald; D. Walde, Andrew; H.W. Baard, Ernst; H. Berry, Kristin; Bertolero, Albert; Blanck, Torsten; Bour, Roger; A. Buhlmann, Kurt; J. Cayot, Linda; J. Collett, Sydney; F. Currylow, Andrea; Das, Indraneil; Diagne, Tomas; R. Ennen, Joshua; Forero‐Medina, Germán; G. Frankel, Matthew; Fritz, Uwe; García, Gerardo; Whitfield Gibbons, J.; M. Gibbons, Paul; Gong, Shiping; Guntoro, Joko; D. Hofmeyr, Margaretha; B. Iverson, John; Ross Kiester, A.; Lau, Michael; P. Lawson, Dwight; E. Lovich, Jeffrey; O. Moll, Edward; P. Páez, Vivian; Palomo-Ramos, Rosalinda; Platt, Kalyar; G. Platt, Steven; C. H. Pritchard, Peter; R. Quinn, Hugh; Caesar Rahman, Shahriar; Tahafe Randrianjafizanaka, Soary; Schaffer, Jason; Selman, Will; Bradley Shaffer, H.; S. K. Sharma, Dionysius; Shi, Haitao; Singh, Shailendra; Spencer, Ricky‐John; Stannard, Kahleana; Sutcliffe, Sarah; Thomson, Scott; C. Vogt, Richard

doi:10.2744/ccb-1348.1

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Global Conservation Status of Turtles and Tortoises (Order Testudines)

Published in Chelonian Conservation and Biology • Dec 18, 2018

Authors:

Anders G. J. Rhodin

Craig B. Stanford

Peter Paul van Dijk

Abstract

We present a review and analysis of the conservation status and International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) threat categories of all 360 currently recognized species of extant and recently extinct turtles and tortoises (Order Testudines). Our analysis is based on the 2018 IUCN Red List sta...

Subject

IUCN Red List

Threatened species

Critically endangered

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