title: Stigmochelys
text: # Stigmochelys
  
  Stigmochelys is a genus of tortoise endemic to Africa. Stigmochelys pardalis, the leopard tortoise, is the only extant species. A fossil species, Stigmochelys brachygularis is known from the Pliocene of Tanzania. Leopard tortoises were once placed in the genus Geochelone along with many other large tortoises.
  
  