Domed Rodrigues giant tortoise (redirect from Cylindraspis peltastes)
The domed Rodrigues giant tortoise (Cylindraspis peltastes) is an extinct species of giant tortoise in the family Testudinidae. It was endemic to Rodrigues...
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giant tortoise, from Rodrigues Cylindraspis indica C. peltastes C. vosmaeri Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cylindraspis. Kehlmaier, Christian; Graciá...
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some Cylindraspis species are thought to be even older than the geologic history of the modern Mascarenes themselves, indicating that Cylindraspis originally...
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giant tortoise †Cylindraspis inepta, saddle-backed Mauritius giant tortoise or Mauritius giant domed tortoise †Cylindraspis peltastes, domed Rodrigues...
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tortoise (Cylindraspis indica) Saddle-backed Mauritius giant tortoise (Cylindraspis inepta) Domed Rodrigues giant tortoise (Cylindraspis peltastes) Domed...
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Saddle-backed Rodrigues giant tortoise (redirect from Cylindraspis vosmaeri)
naturalist Arnout Vosmaer (1720–1799). Both Cylindraspis vosmaeri and its smaller domed relative, Cylindraspis peltastes, were descended from an ancestral species...
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home to two now-extinct endemic giant tortoises, a domed species (Cylindraspis peltastes), and a saddle-backed species (C. vosmaeri), and such birds as the...
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tortoise (Cylindraspis indica) Saddle-backed Mauritius giant tortoise (Cylindraspis inepta) Domed Rodrigues giant tortoise (Cylindraspis peltastes) Domed...
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18 November 2021. World Conservation Monitoring Centre (1996). "Cylindraspis peltastes". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T6063A12388776. doi:10...
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fossil.checklist.v1.2015 World Conservation Monitoring Centre (1996). "Cylindraspis inepta". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T6062A12385198...
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long-necked, saddle-backed Cylindraspis vosmaeri that browsed the trees and bushes; and the smaller, low, dome-shelled Cylindraspis peltastes that grazed grasses...
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Jonathan being the oldest known living terrestrial animal in the world †Cylindraspis an extinct genus of tortoise with the following species: †C. indica,...
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Geochelone platynota (Blyth, 1863) Synonyms Testudo platynota Blyth, 1863 Peltastes platynotus Gray, 1870 Testudo platinota Bourret, 1941 (ex errore) Testudo...
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Psammobates geometricus Fitzinger, 1843 Peltastes geographicus Gray, 1869 Peltastes geometricus Gray, 1870 Peltastes geometrica Gray, 1872 Chersinella geometrica...
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Geochelone (Geochelone) stellata Fitzinger, 1835 Testudo megalopus Blyth, 1853 Peltastes stellatus Gray, 1870 Geochelone elegans Loveridge & Williams, 1957 Geochelone...
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Indotestudo elongata (Blyth, 1853) Synonyms Testudo elongata Blyth, 1853 Peltastes elongatus Gray, 1869 Testudo parallelus Annandale, 1913 Indotestudo elongata...
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1831 (ex errore) Testudo campanulata Strauch, 1862 Peltastes marginatus — Gray, 1869 Peltastes marginata — Gray, 1872 Testudo nemoralis Schreiber, 1875...
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Testudo mauritonica Kercado, 1835 (ex errore) Testudo whitei Bennett, 1836 Peltastes mauritanicus — Gray, 1873 Testudo graeca graeca — Mertens, 1946 Testudo...
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black indicates extinct range Synonyms Testudo leithii Günther, 1869 Peltastes leithii (Günther, 1869) Testudo kleinmanni Lortet, 1883 Medaestia leithi...
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(Geochelone) sulcata Fitzinger, 1835 Geochelone senegalensis Fitzinger, 1855 Peltastes sulcatus Gray, 1869 Centrochelys sulcatus Gray, 1873 Centrochelys sulcata...
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Obst, 1985 P. t. verroxii Testudo verroxii Smith, 1839 Peltastes verreauxii Gray, 1870 Peltastes verroxii Gray, 1870 Testudo verreauxii Rochebrune, 1884...
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1831 Testudo semiserrata Smith, 1839 Clemmys oculifera Strauch, 1862 Peltastes semiserratus Gray, 1870 Chersinella oculifera Hewitt, 1933 Psammobates...
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Müller, 1845) Synonyms Testudo forstenii Schlegel & S. Müller, 1845 Peltastes forstenii — Gray, 1872 Testudo forsteni E. Williams, 1952 (ex errore)...
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