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Testudines

order of reptiles characterized by a shell
Class type of: Reptilia Q223044

Facts

15 properties
Instance of
taxon
Subclass of
Reptilia
Described by source
Otto's encyclopedia, Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary, Gujin Tushu Jicheng, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge, The New Student's Reference Work[8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17]
Different from
Testudinata, turtle[26][27]
Has list
list of Testudines families[28]
Hashtag
turtle[29]
Maintained by WikiProject
WikiProject Amphibians and Reptiles, WikiProject Turtles, WikiProject Tree of Life
On focus list of Wikimedia project
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
Parent taxon
Perichelydia, Archosauromorpha[4][5]
Studied by
cheloniology[30]
Taxon common name
skilpadder, želve, سُلحفاة, سُلحفاء, سُلحفى, فكرون[20][21][22][23][24][25]
Taxon name
Testudines[6]
Taxon rank
order[3]
Temporal range start
Triassic[7]
This taxon is source of
tortoise shell, turtle oil[18][19]
🏷️ Also known as
en Testudines en chelonians en tortoises en turtles en chelonian en Chelonia ar السلحفيات ar السلاحف ar سلحفيات ar سلحفاة ar السلحفاة ar سلاحف cs želva cs želvy da Skildpadde da Testudines de Schildkröten de Testudines el Χελώνια en-gb turtle
🔖 Identifiers · 79
Library of Congress authority ID
sh85138961
GND ID
4052472-3
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Hawaii turtle 2.JPG ↗
ADW taxon ID
Testudines
AccessScience ID
686150
Arabic Ontology concept ID
293401
Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID
300310264
Australian Educational Vocabulary ID
scot/2312
Australian Faunal Directory ID
Testudines
BBC News topic ID
cy2xn5zrnyrt
BBC Things ID
14557084-52c8-4d60-a41f-95dd9075b09e
BOLD Systems taxon ID
384
Show all 79 identifiers +67
Baidu Tieba name
乌龟
Biblissima authority ID
Île aux Cocos
BioLib taxon ID
16323
Canadian Encyclopedia article ID
turtle
Catalogue of Life ID
BXVZV
Concepticon concept set ID
112
Dyntaxa ID
3000296
EPPO Code
1TESTO
Encyclopedia of Korean Culture ID
E0001829
Encyclopedia of Life ID
52570439
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
animal/turtle-reptile
Encyclopædia Universalis ID
cheloniens-tortues
Fandom wiki ID
turtle
Fossilworks taxon ID
56475
France 24 topic ID (French)
tortue
Freebase ID
/m/09dzg
GBIF taxon ID
793
Georgian Encyclopedia ID
28201
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
tortuga-2
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0147046
Great Aragonese Encyclopedia ID
12359
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
skilpadder
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
4682155
Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID
cherepakhi-1b268e
Gujarati Vishwakosh entry
કાચબો
Harper's tag
turtles
INaturalist taxon ID
39532
IRMNG ID
10605
ITIS TSN
948936, 173749
JSTOR topic ID (archived)
turtles
KBpedia ID
Turtle
Klexikon article ID
Schildkröten
Krugosvet article (archived)
nauka_i_tehnika/biologiya/CHEREPAHI.html
LEM ID
LEM201008880
Macaulay Library taxon ID
t-10532920
Maine: An Encyclopedia ID
turtles
MeSH descriptor ID
D014426
MeSH tree code
B01.050.150.900.833.848
NALT ID
7.2k (7.2k–61k, n=4)
NBIC scientific name ID
329
NBN System Key
NHMSYS0021053576
NCBI taxonomy ID
8459
NDL Authority ID
00564798
NE.se ID
sköldpaddor
NL CR AUT ID
ph127960
National Historical Museums of Sweden ID
taxon/9871A9F8-3506-4108-90D0-DE0647517D13
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007558295105171
Nederlands Soortenregister ID
138868
New York Times topic ID
subject/turtles-and-tortoises
New Zealand Organisms Register ID
e98d3c12-4c58-47a2-a0e3-9bb1bfadbe82
OmegaWiki Defined Meaning
1200609
Open Tree of Life ID
639666
Paleobiology Database taxon ID
56475
Plazi ID
726CA836-1A1F-D038-FF4B-FB3931F1FB6E, 1A7187CF-FFCB-177C-FD92-F604EA52581C, 03A97A72-FFAE-FFFF-F6D2-FF37FC13FDFB, 03A50C2F-FFD8-FFB0-FF64-DDDD60827CD4, AF181727-5033-0C2B-9EAB-0C8F314C3341
SVKKL authority ID
0232265-zelvy
Taxonomicon ID
48134
Topic's main category
Category:Turtles
UK Parliament thesaurus ID
13414
UMLS CUI
C3164084
UNII
1PQ73201F8
VerbaAlpina ID
C2803
Vikidia article ID
it:Tartaruga, es:Tortuga_(animal), fr:Tortue
WikiKids ID
Schildpadden
WoRMS-ID for taxa
2689
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
01665425-n
YSO ID
11297
Yale LUX ID
concept/6e71d08e-27a9-4ce9-af12-549cf59ac6ee

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🔗 Connections
Described by source 5
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Gujin Tushu Jicheng, Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary, Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus
Subtypes 3
Galápagos tortoise, World Turtle, Peltocephalus
← Category combines topics 3
Category:Films about turtles, Category:Turtles of Africa, Category:Turtles in literature
Maintained by WikiProject 2
WikiProject Tree of Life, WikiProject Amphibians and Reptiles
Named after 2
Turtle, Turtle Pose
Parent taxon 2
Archosauromorpha, Perichelydia
← Field of work 2
Eugene S. Gaffney, Scott Thomson
← Parent taxon 2
Cryptodira, Nanhsiungchelyidae
← Species kept 2
Hellabrunn Zoo, Philadelphia Zoo
Different from 1
Testudinata
Has list 1
list of Testudines families
Has these parts 1
turtle shell
Instance of 1
taxon
On focus list of Wikimedia project 1
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
Subclass of 1
Reptilia
Taxon rank 1
order
This taxon is source of 1
tortoise shell
Topic's main category 1
Category:Turtles
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Turtles
← Commemorates 1
World Turtle Day
← Depicted by 1
Chelone
← Different from 1
Testudinata
← FactGrid item ID 1
Richard Pipes
← Harvested organism(s) 1
turtle farming
← Has use 1
turtle excluder device
← Individual of taxon 1
Bedawang
← Interested in 1
Fani Willis
← Is a list of 1
list of Testudines families
← Main food source 1
Bengal tiger
← Natural product of taxon 1
tortoise shell
← Uses 1
turtle racing
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Summary

Testudines is a taxon[1]. Testudines is a type of Reptilia[2].

Body

Discovery and Description

Things named for Testudines include Turtle[31], a submersible[32] and Turtle Pose[33], an asana[34].

Why It Matters

Entities named for Testudines include Turtle[31], a submersible[32] and Turtle Pose[33], an asana[34].

Related Entities

Richard Pipes

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Checklist of Chelonians of the World. wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . More than 1000 ultraconserved elements provide evidence that turtles are the sister group of archosaurs. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Checklist of Chelonians of the World. wikidata.org.
  5. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . woopets.fr. woopets.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . woopets.fr. woopets.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . woopets.fr. woopets.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . woopets.fr. woopets.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . woopets.fr. woopets.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . woopets.fr. woopets.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [29] ↑ . imgur.com. Retrieved . imgur.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  29. [30] ↑ . woopets.fr. woopets.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [32] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [34] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 21d ago · AntiDerangedKhanTengriAction · 2026-10-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    ITIS TSN → 948936, 173749
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ ITIS TSN: 173749, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/290800|batch #290800]]"
  2. 5w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-09-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → turtles
    Different from → Testudinata, turtle
    Sitelink count → 175
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'als', 'am', 'an', 'anp', 'ar', 'ary', 'arz', 'ast', 'atj', 'az', 'azb',
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: turtles, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289972461|turtles (#289972461)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'm"
  3. 11w ago · Jerimee · 2026-08-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → Testudinata, turtle
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Different from: turtle"
  4. 11w ago · SLuecke · 2026-08-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    VerbaAlpina ID → C2803
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ VerbaAlpina ID: C2803, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1786955435161"
  5. 14w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority ID → Île aux Cocos
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Biblissima authority ID: Q292224, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/627d4912166|details]])"
  6. 20w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    SVKKL authority ID → 0232265-zelvy
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ SVKKL authority ID: 0232265-zelvy, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259494|batch #259494]]"
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