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Tirtouga (Pokémon)
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Tirtouga resembles a baby sea turtle, or more specifically a leatherback. Many less armored places on Tirtouga's body, such as its flippers, are blue. It has a black upper beak and “mask”, and black spots on the edges of its front flippers as well. Its black shell has six circular indentations in it.
Gender differences
None.
Special abilities
Tirtouga's shell is very tough, and it can dive down to depths of as much as 1000 meters.
Behavior
Habitat
Tirtouga once lived in the oceans long ago, sometimes coming ashore to eat. Today, the Pokémon is considered extinct.
Tirtouga, the Prototurtle Pokémon. Tirtouga can dive underwater to half-mile depths,and can also attack onshore.
In the manga
In the Pokémon Adventures manga
Marshal owned a Tirtouga sometime before arriving in Nimbasa City. Because of its hard-to-control nature, he released it the day before meeting Black and White. It was later captured by Black and named Goura.
Tirtouga appears to be based on a baby sea turtle, more specifically, a leatherback.
It also may be based on Protostega, a large, prehistoric sea turtle that was smaller than the Archelon that Carracosta may be based on.
Name origin
Tirtouga may be a corruption of tortuga (Spanish for turtle, tir having a similar phonetic pronunciation to the tur in turtle) or derived from Tortuga (translated as Turtle Island in French and Spanish). It may also be a corruption of tartaruga, Italian and Portuguese for tortoise, seeing as turtles are closely related to tortoises.
Protoga may be a combination of Protostega (an extinct turtle species largest second to only the Archelon, which its evolution is based on) and tortuga.
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