Name - Geochelone atlantica Lopez-Jurado, Mateo & Garcia-Marquez 1998

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:1392620 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Chelonoidis carbonarius (Spix 1824)

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Original Description Reference

• The fossil tortoise from Sal island (Cape Verde archipelago). Revista Espanola de Herpetologia, 12 1998: 111-114. [Zoological Record Volume 136]

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Recent Publications

• The fossil tortoise from Sal island (Cape Verde archipelago).
• 'Ancient DNA' reveals that the scientific name for an extinct tortoise from Cape Verde refers to an extant South American species.

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