Critically Endangered
Home's hinge-back tortoise
Kinixys homeana
Home's hinge-back tortoise is a tortoise in the family Testudinidae — Kinixys homeana, recorded as Critically Endangered.
The tortoise
Home's hinge-back tortoise is a tortoise in the family Testudinidae — Kinixys homeana.
Range and habitat
K. Homeana is found in Benin, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, and possibly Togo. The natural habitats of Home's hinge-back tortoise are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical swamps, and plantations. The species is endemic to Africa.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet
In captivity the diet of K. Homeana may include, banana, guava, watermelon, black mushrooms, cooked sweet potato, cooked potato, and cooked or raw squash, and sources of animal protein such as earthworms, mealworms, crickets, snails and fish.
In crisis
K. Homeana is threatened by habitat loss.
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix II. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Home's hinge-back tortoise is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Home's hinge-back tortoise, Wikidata item Q301423. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
