Talk:List of subspecies of Galápagos tortoise

lot of good stuff in here

Think we could head this to FL. (After some polishing and developing.)

Could think about doing FAs on the IO tortoises as well and potentiall some sort of FT revolving around all the giant tortoises.TCO (talk) 06:27, 19 February 2011 (UTC)

Hard to read!

This is a horrible format, with long paragraphs two or three words wide. Can we re-formt it, e.g. putting the image and species summary and taxonomic in a box, then the history and description below? --Monado (talk) 19:17, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

I think this depends on the width of your display. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 16:22, 24 October 2014 (UTC).

Older classification

The Gigantic Land Tortoises of the Galapagos Archipelago. By John Van Denburg, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., 1914.

Island	Species	Status-1906
Abingdon	Testudo abingdoni	Rare
James	Testudo darwini	Rare
Jervis	Testudo wallacei	Very rare
Duncan	Testudo ephippium	Fairly abundant
Indefatigable	Testudo porteri	Not rare
Barrington	Testudo ?	Extinct
Chatham	Testudo chathamensis	Nearly extinct
Hood	Testudo hoodensis	Very rare
Charles	Testudo elephantopus	Extinct
Narborough	Testudo phantastica	Very rare
Vilamil -- Albemarle	Testudo guntheri	Abundant
Iguana Cove -- Albemarle	Testudo vicina	Numerous
Tagus Cove -- Albemarle	Testudo microphyes	Fairly numerous
Banks Bay -- Albemarle	Testudo becki	Fairly numerous
Cowley Mt. -- Albemarle	Testudo ?	Rare

(Table from THE GALAPAGOS TORTOISES IN THEIR RELATION TO THE WHALING INDUSTRY by CHARLES HASKINS TOWNSEND pub. NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY )

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 16:22, 24 October 2014 (UTC).

Pronunciation please...

"Chelonoidis nigra"... Is that last bit "NI-GRA" or ummm... "NIG-RA". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Basesurge (talk • contribs) 04:53, 30 July 2015 (UTC)

Species or subspecies?

In places (Wikipedia and latest IUCN taxonomy: Turtles of the World, 7th edition, 2014), these subspecies are considered species of the "nigra" species complex. Is it time to elevate these to species category here and elsewhere in Wikipedia? Dger (talk) 15:29, 22 October 2015 (UTC)

Yes, I'd support that. Additionally there is confusion with Galápagos tortoise and Giant tortoise. Regards, Sun Creator^(talk) 20:02, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

If that's the case, we should split off the species articles. This here article seems like it should be merged to somewhere. FunkMonk (talk) 10:37, 2 December 2016 (UTC)

Agree, this might benefit from splitting into separate articles. Not that I don't like the current one; it's a nice compendium. But there may be enough information on the individual species to support articles. Looking around, it seems that species complexes have been variably bundled (Anopheles gambiae, Amanita muscaria) or split (Heliconius), so it would be a judgment call on amount of available information.-- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 11:07, 2 December 2016 (UTC)

Do these tortoises form a clade to the exclusion of other species in the same genus from elsewhere? FunkMonk (talk) 14:28, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

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Mistake in the number of species

If what this article says is correct, there are now two species on Santa Cruz Island. This should be mentioned here.2600:1700:7E31:5710:ACD0:53A3:C0A9:94F4 (talk) 04:27, 1 May 2019 (UTC)

Which is it?

The article says both that Darwin saw them and that he saw only carapaces. --ExperiencedArticleFixer (talk) 00:42, 23 July 2020 (UTC)

15 African spur

Information about the #'s 72.188.74.10 (talk) 20:46, 4 June 2022 (UTC)