Creatures in Crisis
Photograph of Impressed tortoise (Manouria impressa), recorded as Endangered
Impressed tortoise (Manouria impressa). Image via Wikimedia Commons.

Endangered

Impressed tortoise

Manouria impressa

Impressed tortoise is a tortoise in the family Testudinidae — Manouria impressa, recorded as Endangered.

Status
Endangered
Scientific name
Manouria impressa
CITES
Appendix II
Taxonomy
Testudines · Testudinidae · Manouria

The tortoise

Impressed tortoise is a tortoise in the family Testudinidae — Manouria impressa.

Range and habitat

It occurs in mountainous forest areas in Southeast Asia, mainly in Myanmar Burma, southern China, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia and Northeast India.

Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.

Diet and breeding

Its behavior is little known due to the small known population. Diet in the wild has been observed to consist primarily of mushrooms. While mushrooms compose majority of the tortoise's diet, bugs such as beetles and other larvae could be consumed accidentally in the process.

Impressed tortoises usually create large nests during the breeding season from early spring throughout the summer and lay eggs between June and July.

In crisis

CITES lists this taxon on Appendix II. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.

Impressed tortoise is 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 Impressed tortoise, Wikidata item Q1923834. 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.

Photograph via Wikimedia Commons. Wikipedia · Wikidata · IUCN Red List.

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Quick answers

What is Impressed tortoise?
Impressed tortoise is a tortoise in the family Testudinidae — Manouria impressa.
What is the conservation status of Impressed tortoise?
Endangered, as the IUCN category stored on Wikidata for Manouria impressa. Confirm the official assessment on iucnredlist.org.
Where does Impressed tortoise live?
It occurs in mountainous forest areas in Southeast Asia, mainly in Myanmar Burma, southern China, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia and Northeast India.
Why is Impressed tortoise in crisis?
It is Endangered on Wikidata. Read the official Red List assessment for the criteria.
Is this the IUCN Red List page for Manouria impressa?
No. This is a researched catalog account. The Red List is the assessment.
Is Impressed tortoise a pet?
An animal on this catalog is in crisis in the wild. Keeping one is usually the wrong question.