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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 ...
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 .
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 ...
The largest island is Nendö, which is also known as Santa Cruz Island proper. Lata, located on Nendö, is the largest town, and is the capital of Temotu Province.. Other islands belonging to the Santa Cruz group [1] are Vanikoro (which is actually made up of two islands, Banie and its small neighbour Teanu) and Utupua.
Between 1963 and 1974, all 14 adult tortoises discovered on the island were brought to the tortoise center on Santa Cruz and a tortoise breeding program was initiated. In 1977, a third Española male tortoise was returned to Galapagos from the San Diego Zoo and joined the breeding group. [ 78 ]
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
Santa Cruz giant tortoise Bottlenose dolphins jumping off the Galápagos Islands. One of the best-known animals is the Galápagos tortoise, which once lived on ten of the islands. Now, some tortoise species are extinct or extinct in the wild and they live on six of the islands. The tortoises have an average lifespan of over 130 years.
C. n. porteri – western Santa Cruz tortoise [2] †C. n. 'Santa Fe Island lineage' – Santa Fe Island tortoise (undescribed, driven to extinction in the mid-19th century) [14] C. n. vandenburghi – Volcán Alcedo giant tortoise [2] C. n. vicina – Cerro Azul giant tortoise [2] † C. alburyorum – Bahamian tortoise (Late Holocene of The ...