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    Species Accepted

    Chelonoidis niger (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824)

    Abingdon Island Giant Tortoise [abingdonii]

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      43 results
      Abingdon Island Giant Tortoise [abingdonii] English
      Alcedo Volcano Giant Tortoise [vandenburghi] English
      Cape Berkeley Giant Tortoise [becki]
      Cerro Azul Giant Tortoise English
      Charles Island Giant Tortoise English
      Chatham Island Giant Tortoise [chathamensis] English
      Darwin Volcano Giant Tortoise English
      Dev Galapagos Kaplumbağası Turkish
      Duncan Island Giant Tortoise English
      Duncan Island Giant Tortoise [duncanensis] English

      Treatments

      2 results

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      97 results
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      Obst, F. J. (1986). Turtles, tortoises and terrapins. St. Martins, New York. 231 Pp.
      Iverson, J. B. (1992). A revised Checklist with Distribution Maps of the Turtles of the World. Richmond, Indiana, Privately Published, 363 Pp.
      Márquez, C.; Snell, H. & Snell, H. (2004). La Niña, El Niño, and the Giant Galapagos Tortoises of Isabela. Geochelone nigra vandenburghi. Reptilia (GB) (37): 27-30.
      Poulakakis, N, Miller, JM, Jensen, EL, et al. (2021). Colonization history of Galapagos giant tortoises: Insights from mitogenomes support the progression rule. J Zool Syst Evol Res. 2020; 58: 1262– 1275.
      TTWG; Rhodin, A.G.J., Iverson, J.B., Bour, R., Fritz, U., Georges, A., Shaffer, H.B., and van Dijk, P.P. (2021). Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status (9th Ed.). In: Rhodin, A.G.J., Iverson, J.B., van Dijk, P.P., Stanford, C.B., Goode, E.V., Buhlmann, K.A., and Mittermeier, R.A. (Eds.). Conservation Biology of Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises: A Compilation Project of the IUCN/SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group. Chelonian Research Monographs 8:1–472. Doi:10.3854/Crm.8.Checklist.Atlas.V9.2021.
      Julien, A. J., & Wyman, A. (1878). Gigantic land tortoises. Nature 19:30–31.
      Swash, A., & Still, R. (2000). Birds, Mammals and Reptiles of the Galapagos Islands. Pica Press, 168 Pp.
      Caccone, Adalgisa; George Amato; Oliver C. Gratry; John Behler and Jeffrey R. Powell. (1999). A Molecular Phylogeny of Four Endangered Madagascar Tortoises Based on MtDNA Sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 12 (1): 1–9.

      Citation

      Chelonoidis niger (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) in undefined