For the remaining species of turtles and tortoises, apart from a dozen or more that have limited ranges, such as the giant turtles of the Galapagos islands and the radiated tortoise of Madagascar, which CITES list as protected, few people know or care much about the living habits or populations of most turtle species, and fewer still can distinguish between them.
其餘眾多龜族，除華盛頓公約列出的十多種瀕臨絕種陸龜，如分佈地侷限於島嶼的馬達加斯加輻射龜，加拉巴哥群島的象龜之外，絕大多數烏龜的生活習性與族群現況，乏人關心，能辨識各種烏龜的人更微乎其微。