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File:Featured article star.svg Featured articles

• File:Featured article star.svg Bog turtle
• File:Featured article star.svg Galápagos tortoise
• File:Featured article star.svg Loggerhead sea turtle
• File:Featured article star.svg Painted turtle
• File:Featured article star.svg Turtle
• File:Featured article star.svg Wells and Wellington affair

Total pages in content type is 6

File:Featured article star - cross.svg Former featured articles

• File:Featured article star - cross.svg Hawksbill sea turtle
• File:Featured article star - cross.svg Marginated tortoise

Total pages in content type is 2

File:Featured article star.svg Featured lists

• File:Featured article star.svg List of Testudines families
• File:Featured article star.svg List of reptiles of Michigan
• File:Featured article star.svg List of U.S. state reptiles

Total pages in content type is 3

File:Symbol support vote.svg Good articles

• File:Symbol support vote.svg Archelon
• File:Symbol support vote.svg Chicken turtle
• File:Symbol support vote.svg Stupendemys
• File:Symbol support vote.svg Wood turtle

Total pages in content type is 4

File:Symbol question.svg Did you know? articles

• File:Symbol question.svg ... that the fossil turtle Acherontemys was named for a "river of the fabled lower world"? (2024-01-26)
• File:Symbol question.svg ... that Adwaita, the reportedly 255-year-old Aldabra Giant Tortoise that recently died in Kolkata zoo, was a pet of Robert Clive, the Commander-in-Chief, India of British East India Company? (2006-03-29)
• File:Symbol question.svg ... that the tiny fossil turtle Amabilis uchoensis was given the Latin name amabilis for being "lovable", but the large evergreen tree Abies amabilis is called amabilis because it is "lovely"? (2021-12-22)
• File:Symbol question.svg ... that hatchling Balkan terrapins are only 3 to 4 centimetres (1.2 to 1.6 in) in length, while adults (example pictured) can grow as long as 25 cm (9.8 in)? (2023-11-20)
• File:Symbol question.svg ... that the French poet Victor Segalen admired the four tortoises (later example pictured) that had glorified Prince Ancheng of Kang for almost one and a half millennia? (2010-01-25)
• File:Symbol question.svg ... that in Thailand, the smiling terrapin (pictured) is believed to contain the souls of people who died while trying to save others from drowning? (2011-04-13)
• File:Symbol question.svg ... that the Early Cretaceous turtle Caririemys was the fifth such turtle genus to have been discovered in Brazil's Santana Formation? (2008-12-26)
• File:Symbol question.svg ... that one of the specimens used to describe the extinct turtle Cearachelys was actually procured eight years prior to it being formally described in 2001? (2008-12-23)
• File:Symbol question.svg ... that the chicken turtle is one of the shortest-lived turtle species in the world? (2022-06-06)
• File:Symbol question.svg ... that the Chinese box turtle (pictured) has at least four common names, and there is debate over its genus classification? (2006-06-11)
• File:Symbol question.svg ... that Chinese softshell turtles pee using their mouths? (2012-10-22)
• File:Symbol question.svg ... that the male common box turtle (pictured) has to lean back past the vertical to mate with the female? (2011-07-31)
• File:Symbol question.svg ... that at an estimated 4 metres (13 ft), Cratochelone is the largest of the three extinct protostegid sea turtles found in Australia? (2011-09-06)
• File:Symbol question.svg ... that an almost-complete juvenile specimen of Ctenochelys was uncovered in 2005? (2008-07-07)
• File:Symbol question.svg ... that Senegalese turtle biologist Tomas Diagne drove 1,200 miles (1,900 km) to pick up the carcass of a Nubian flapshell turtle? (2021-02-01)
• File:Symbol question.svg ... that Diego (pictured) "had so much sex he saved his species"? (2020-02-14)
• File:Symbol question.svg ... that the Galápagos tortoise is the largest living tortoise in the world, only native to the Galápagos Islands, where about 15,000 of them live? (2005-04-13)
• File:Symbol question.svg ... that the Gulf Snapping Turtle was described as "Australia's first living fossil freshwater turtle, an extant population of a Pleistocene taxon"? (2010-01-11)
• File:Symbol question.svg ... that the extinct Itilochelys is one of only three known fossil cheloniid sea turtle taxa found in the Volgograd Region? (2011-09-17)
• File:Symbol question.svg ... that the type specimen of Kinkonychelys represents the first turtle skull described from the pre-Holocene era in Madagascar? (2010-01-23)
• File:Symbol question.svg ... that the largest organism in the world is a honey fungus which covers more than 3.4 square miles (8.9 km²) and is thousands of years old? (2005-08-23)
• File:Symbol question.svg ... that the Marginated Tortoise is the largest European tortoise? (2004-10-28)
• File:Symbol question.svg ... that Mazunte (pictured), now home to the Mexican National Turtle Center, was the site of a sea turtle slaughterhouse until 1990? (2010-01-20)
• File:Symbol question.svg ... that the Peters's squirrel, the flat-headed myotis, the false canyon mouse, the Chamula mountain brook frog, the Sierra Juarez brook frog, the Tamaulipas pygmy owl, and the Oaxaca mud turtle (pictured) are all native to Mexico and found nowhere else? (2016-08-04)
• File:Symbol question.svg ... that, together with Platychelys, Pleurosternon is one of the few fossil genera with characteristics of both modern turtle suborders? (2011-02-02)
• File:Symbol question.svg ... that the largest sea turtles ever to have swum the oceans belonged to the family Protostegidae? (2007-09-07)
• File:Symbol question.svg ... that the extinct sea turtle Psephophorus was once mistaken as an ancient armadillo due to the specimen's poor condition? (2008-07-01)
• File:Symbol question.svg ... that Puppigerus, an extinct sea turtle, had a specialized jaw structure which kept it from accidentally inhaling water? (2012-04-25)
• File:Symbol question.svg ... that Santanachelys gaffneyi is the earliest known sea turtle? (2007-09-09)
• File:Symbol question.svg ... that the Saw-shelled Turtle is one of the few native Australian animals which successfully prey on the introduced poisonous Cane Toad? (2010-08-07)
• File:Symbol question.svg ... that a species of the 80-million year-old sea turtle Terlinguachelys fischbecki was actually named after a school teacher? (2008-12-22)
• File:Symbol question.svg ... that the use of turtle excluder devices has decreased the number of sea turtles accidentally killed by shrimp fishermen by 97%? (2007-09-06)
• File:Symbol question.svg ... that hundreds of millions of Chinese Soft-shelled Turtles are raised every year in Asia's turtle farms? (2010-01-03)
• File:Symbol question.svg ... that twenty-six U.S. states have an official reptile? (2011-02-05)
• File:Symbol question.svg ... that in the Australian Journal of Herpetology, a first-year student and a high school teacher reassessed the taxonomy of Australia's entire reptile class, naming 33 novel genera and 214 new species? (2020-05-20)
• File:Symbol question.svg ... that one of only five extant Rafetus swinhoei soft-shelled turtles is thought by residents of Hanoi, Vietnam to be the magical Golden Turtle God named Kim Qui? (2006-12-13)
• File:Symbol question.svg ... that yellow-bellied sliders (pictured), popular as pets, are found in a wide variety of habitats, including rivers, floodplain swamps, seasonal wetlands, and permanent ponds? (2008-10-30)

Total pages in content type is 37

Error creating thumbnail: File missing Featured pictures

• A butterfly feeding on the tears of a turtle in Ecuador
  A butterfly feeding on the tears of a turtle in Ecuador
• African helmeted turtle (Pelomedusa subrufa)
  African helmeted turtle (Pelomedusa subrufa)
• Aldabra Giant Tortoise Geochelone gigantea edit1
  Aldabra Giant Tortoise Geochelone gigantea edit1
• Cyclemys oldhamii
  Cyclemys oldhamii
• Eastern Long-neck-Turtle-with-algae,-Vic,-3.1.2008
  Eastern Long-neck-Turtle-with-algae,-Vic,-3.1.2008
• Florida Box Turtle Digon3
  Florida Box Turtle Digon3
• Green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) Moorea
  Green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) Moorea
• Green turtle swimming over coral reefs in Kona
  Green turtle swimming over coral reefs in Kona
• GreenSeaTurtle-2
  GreenSeaTurtle-2
• Hawaii turtle 2
  Hawaii turtle 2
• Hellenic pond turtle (Emys orbicularis hellenica) Butrint
  Hellenic pond turtle (Emys orbicularis hellenica) Butrint
• Indian tent turtle (Pangshura tentoria tentoria)
  Indian tent turtle (Pangshura tentoria tentoria)
• Painted Turtle Distribution alternate
  Painted Turtle Distribution alternate
• Radiated tortoise (Astrochelys radiata) Tsimanampetsotsa
  Radiated tortoise (Astrochelys radiata) Tsimanampetsotsa
• Sea Turtle in Apo Island
  Sea Turtle in Apo Island
• Tortoise-Hatchling
  Tortoise-Hatchling
• Tunisian tortoise (Testudo graeca nabeulensis) male Cap Bon 2
  Tunisian tortoise (Testudo graeca nabeulensis) male Cap Bon 2

Total pages in content type is 17

File:Globe current.svg In the News articles

• File:Globe current.svg Chelonoidis niger donfaustoi (2015-10-26)
• File:Globe current.svg Pinta Island tortoise (2012-06-24)

Total pages in content type is 2

Main page featured articles

• Bog turtle (2010-08-30)
• Galápagos tortoise (2012-04-14)
• Hawksbill sea turtle (2010-01-24)
• Loggerhead sea turtle (2012-01-04)
• Marginated tortoise (2004-12-04)
• Painted turtle (2011-07-20)
• Turtle (2022-05-23)
• Wells and Wellington affair (2021-03-18)

Total pages in content type is 8

Main page featured lists

• List of reptiles of Michigan (2021-12-31)
• List of U.S. state reptiles (2012-01-09)

Total pages in content type is 2

File:Wikipedia-logo.svg Picture of the day pictures

• A butterfly feeding on the tears of a turtle in Ecuador (2018-08-04)
  A butterfly feeding on the tears of a turtle in Ecuador (2018-08-04)
• African helmeted turtle (Pelomedusa subrufa) (2024-12-01)
  African helmeted turtle (Pelomedusa subrufa) (2024-12-01)
• Aldabra Giant Tortoise Geochelone gigantea edit1 (2010-10-03)
  Aldabra Giant Tortoise Geochelone gigantea edit1 (2010-10-03)
• Cyclemys oldhamii (2022-05-27)
  Cyclemys oldhamii (2022-05-27)
• Eastern Long-neck-Turtle-with-algae,-Vic,-3.1.2008 (2008-10-16)
  Eastern Long-neck-Turtle-with-algae,-Vic,-3.1.2008 (2008-10-16)
• Florida Box Turtle Digon3 (2009-03-01)
  Florida Box Turtle Digon3 (2009-03-01)
• Green turtle swimming over coral reefs in Kona (2013-01-13)
  Green turtle swimming over coral reefs in Kona (2013-01-13)
• GreenSeaTurtle-2 (2006-02-19)
  GreenSeaTurtle-2 (2006-02-19)
• Hawaii turtle 2 (2007-09-16)
  Hawaii turtle 2 (2007-09-16)
• Indian tent turtle (Pangshura tentoria tentoria) (2022-05-07)
  Indian tent turtle (Pangshura tentoria tentoria) (2022-05-07)
• Painted Turtle Distribution alternate (2011-07-02)
  Painted Turtle Distribution alternate (2011-07-02)
• Radiated tortoise (Astrochelys radiata) Tsimanampetsotsa (2023-10-09)
  Radiated tortoise (Astrochelys radiata) Tsimanampetsotsa (2023-10-09)
• Tortoise-Hatchling (2004-11-19)
  Tortoise-Hatchling (2004-11-19)

Total pages in content type is 13