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    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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    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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