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Red-footed tortoises have many common names: red-leg, red-legged, or red-foot tortoise (often without the hyphen) and the savanna tortoise, as well as local names, such as carumbe or karumbe, which means 'slow moving' (Brazil, Paraguay), wayapopi or morrocoy (Venezuela, Colombia), and variations of jabuti such as japuta and jabuti-piranga (Brazil, Argentina). [5]
Chelonoidis is a genus of turtles in the tortoise family erected by Leopold Fitzinger in 1835. [2] They are found in South America and the Galápagos Islands, and formerly had a wide distribution in the West Indies. The multiple subspecies of the Galápagos tortoise (C. niger) are among the largest extant terrestrial chelonians.
Chelonoidis Fitzinger 1835:112 [38] † Chelonoidis alburyorum Abaco tortoise, Late Pleistocene, extinct c. 1400 CE; Chelonoidis carbonarius, red-footed tortoise; Chelonoidis chilensis, Chaco tortoise, Argentine tortoise or southern wood tortoise † Chelonoidis cubensis Cuban giant tortoise; Chelonoidis denticulatus Brazilian giant tortoise ...
In contrast to their earth-bound relatives, tortoises, sea turtles do not have the ability to retract their heads into their shells. Their plastron, which is the bony plate making up the underside of a turtle or tortoise's shell, is comparably more reduced from other turtle species and is connected to the top part of the shell by ligaments without a hinge separating the pectoral and abdominal ...
Chelonoidis carbonaria: Red-footed tortoise: Amazon basin: vulnerable: Chelonoidis denticulata: Yellow-footed tortoise: Amazon basin: vulnerable: Side-necked turtles - Podocnemididae: Scientific name Common name Distribution Status Peltocephalus dumerilianus: Big-headed Amazon River turtle: Amazon basin: vulnerable: Podocnemis erythrocephala ...
[50] [51] Prior to 2021, all subspecies were classified as distinct species from one another, but a 2021 study analyzing the level of divergence within the extinct West Indian Chelonoidis radiation and comparing it to the Galápagos radiation found that the level of divergence within both clades may have been significantly overestimated, and ...
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Red-footed tortoise, Chelonoidis carbonaria. Tortoises also arrived in South America in the Oligocene. They were long thought to have come from North America, but a recent comparative genetic analysis concludes that the South American genus Chelonoidis (formerly part of Geochelone) is actually most closely related to African hingeback tortoises.