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Map of the Galápagos Islands showing locations of different tortoise species In 2015, the small, eastern Cerro Fatal population of the island was described as a distinct subspecies, C. n. donfaustoi , most closely related to chathamensis (and forming a clade with it plus abingdoni and hoodensis ), while the main southwestern porteri population ...
A colonization from the island of Santiago apparently gave rise to the Volcan Wolf subspecies (C. n. becki) while the four southern populations are believed to be descended from a second colonization from the more southerly island of Santa Cruz. [17] Tortoises from Santa Cruz are thought to have first colonized the Sierra Negra volcano, which ...
Chelonoidis 'Santa Fe Island lineage' (undescribed) [50] Santa Fe Island tortoise. Extinct [51] N/A There have been accounts of whalers removing tortoises from Santa Fe Island, and two informants to the 1905-1905 California Academy of Sciences expedition mention locals removing tortoises in 1876 and 1890. These accounts, however, were given 30 ...
Harriet (formerly Harry; c. 1830 – 23 June 2006) was a Galápagos tortoise (Chelonoidis niger, specifically a western Santa Cruz tortoise C. n. porteri) who had an estimated age of 175 years at the time of her death in Australia.
Giant tortoises are any of several species of various large land tortoises, which include a number of extinct species, [1] as well as two extant species with multiple subspecies formerly common on the islands of the western Indian Ocean and on the Galápagos Islands. [2] A Galápagos giant tortoise on Santa Cruz Island
Chelonoidis niger donfaustoi, known as the eastern Santa Cruz tortoise, is a subspecies of Galápagos tortoise living on Santa Cruz Island, within the Galápagos. Until 2015, C. n. donfaustoi was considered conspecific with the western Santa Cruz tortoise , C. n. porteri .
A Galápagos tortoise (Chelonoidis nigra) on Santa Cruz. C. nigra is the largest living species of tortoise, hunted to near extinction during the islands' whaling era. Gen. José de Villamil, founder of the Ecuadorian Navy and first governor of the islands The 1841 Admiralty chart drafted from FitzRoy's survey of the islands on HMS Beagle
No confirmed live tortoises nor remains were found on Fernandina until an expedition in February 2019 discovered a potential endling, an elderly female. [13] The tortoise was transferred to a breeding center on nearby Santa Cruz Island, for the purpose of conservation and genetic tests. There are efforts being made to find a suitable male ...