Flat-tailed Tortoise
Pyxis planicauda
- Critically endangered
- Card rarity: Legendary
- Reptiles
The flat-backed spider tortoise, more commonly known as the flat-tailed tortoise, and Madagascan flat-tailed tortoise, is a tortoise that belongs to the family Testudinidae. The various common names for this small tortoise usually refer to the noticeably flattened nature of its oblong upper-shell or its tail.
Classification
- Class
- Reptilia
- Order
- Testudines
- Family
- Testudinidae
- Genus
- Pyxis