Is it venomous or poisonous?
We have no record of Eastern Hinged-Back Tortoise being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Kinixys belliana
- Kinixys spekii
- Kinixys lobatsiana
- Indotestudo elongata
- Psammobates oculifer
- Geochelone elegans
Classification
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Reptilia
- Order
- Testudines
- Family
- Testudinidae
- Genus
- Kinixys
- Species
- Kinixys zombensis
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