标题: Galapagos Tortoise [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 1-10-2012 16:30 标题: Galapagos Tortoise Elizabeth Weise, Galapagos Tortoise May Not Be Gone After All; DNA tests reveal offspring of spcies long thought extinct. USA Today, Jan 12, 2012 (title and date in print). http://www.usatoday.com/news/wor ... -extinct/52467768/1
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(a) Galápagos Islands http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galápagos_Islands
(972 km (525 nmi) west of continental Ecuador, of which they are a part; Floreana Island was named after Juan José Flores, the first President of Ecuador, during whose administration the government of Ecuador took possession of the archipelago; Isabela Island was named in honor of Queen Isabela; The Galápagos Islands first appeared on the maps, of Gerardus Mercator and Abraham Ortelius, in about 1570.[9] The islands were named "Insulae de los Galopegos" (Islands of the Tortoises) in reference to the giant tortoises found there; Ecuador annexed the Galápagos Islands on in 1832)
(b) For Chelonoidis elephantopus, see Galápagos tortoise http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gal%C3%A1pagos_tortoise
(The current species designation of nigra ("black" – Quoy & Gaimard, 1824b[3]) was resurrected in 1984[33] after it was discovered to be the senior synonym (an older taxonomic synonym taking historical precedence) for the then commonly used species name of elephantopus ("elephant footed" – Harlan, 1827[12]). The use of nigra is explained by Quoy and Gaimard's Latin description: "Testudo toto corpore nigro", meaning "tortoise with completely black body".)