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Terapagos (Japanese: テラパゴス Terapagos) is a Pokémon introduced in Generation IX.
Biology
Trivia
Terapagos's sketch in the Scarlet and Violet books
Origin
Terapagos may be based on a sea turtle, specifically the Galápagos green turtle, a population of green sea turtles found around the Galápagos Islands. It may also be based on the Galápagos tortoise. Terapagos may also reference the World Turtle, a mythical turtle found in various mythologies that was said to carry the world upon its back. It may also take inspiration from chitons, marine mollusks with flat disk-shaped bodies and eye-like peripherals composed of rock. Its hairy appearance may be a reference to Japanese legends of the minogame, a turtle which lived for 10,000 years and grew a tail made of seaweed.
Name origin
Terapagos may be a combination of Terastal or terrapin and galápagos (Spanish for turtles; also the name of an archipelago known as Galápagos Islands).
In other languages
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Meaning
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 Japanese
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テラパゴス Terapagos
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From Terastal, terrapin, and galápagos or Galápagos Islands
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 French
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Terapagos
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Same as English/Japanese name
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 Spanish
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Terapagos
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Same as English/Japanese name
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 German
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Terapagos
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Same as English/Japanese name
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 Italian
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Terapagos
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Same as English/Japanese name
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 Korean
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테라파고스 Terapagoseu
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Same as English/Japanese name
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 Mandarin Chinese
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太樂巴戈斯 / 太乐巴戈斯 Tàilèbāgēsī
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Transcription of the Japanese name and 太 tài
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 Cantonese Chinese
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太樂巴戈斯 Taailohkbāgwōsī
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Transcription of the Japanese name and 太 taai
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