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Black-breasted leaf turtle

Amazing fact

The black-breasted leaf turtle can move its eyes independently.

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Black-breasted leaf turtle in its habitat (illustration)

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The black-breasted leaf turtle can move its eyes independently.

SourceHouston Zoo — Black-breasted Leaf Turtle

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THE REAL WORLD

The real Black-breasted leaf turtle

Scientific name
Geoemyda spengleri
Japanese name
スペングラーヤマガメ
Group
Amphibians and reptiles
Class
Reptilia
Order
Testudines
Family
Geoemydidae
Genus
Geoemyda
Facts about the real animal.
01

It lives in southern China and Vietnam.

鳥羽水族館 — スペングラーヤマガメ
02

The rear edge of its shell is jagged.

鳥羽水族館 — スペングラーヤマガメ
03

It is usually slow and relaxed, but when it spots insects to eat, it chases them quickly.

鳥羽水族館 — スペングラーヤマガメ

How the Black-breasted leaf turtle lives

It sits still for hours on the forest floor, watching for movement. Besides insects, it eats land snails, earthworms and fruit. Its leaf-like shell helps it blend into the forest floor. Its young hatch from eggs.

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Basic data

Diet
Insects
Range
Southern China and Vietnam
鳥羽水族館

Where the Black-breasted leaf turtle has been recorded

World map with dots where the Black-breasted leaf turtle has been recorded
Each dot marks a place with observations or specimens shared on GBIF. Some records are of animals that strayed or were brought by people, so the dots are not always where the animal lives.

Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF

Where it livesAsiaForests

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Names around the world

简体中文
地龟
繁體中文
地龜

Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.

Sources and how we check

We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.

The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.

The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.

This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.

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