Aldabrachelys daudinii Duméril & Bibron, 1835:123
Daudin's giant tortoise
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Testudo indica Schneider, 1783; Testudo daudinii Duméril & Bibron, 1835; Testudo daudinii Duméril & Bibron, 1854; Dipsochelys daudinii Lucker, 2000; Dipsochelys gigantea daudinii Duméril & Bibron, 1835
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: 1830 or later (c.1850?)
Distribution
Seychelles
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
This species is only known from two specimens.
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Duméril, A. M. C. and G. Bibron. (1835). Erpétologie Générale ou Histoire Naturelle Complète des Reptiles, Vol. 2. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris, iv + 680 pp.
Other references:
Austin, J. J. and Arnold, E. N. (2001). Ancient mitochondrial DNA and morphology elucidate an extinct island radiation of Indian Ocean giant tortoises (Cylindraspis). Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 268B: 2515-2523.
Bour, Roger. (1985 "1984"). Les tortues terrestres géantes des îles de l’océan Indien occidental: données géographiques, taxinomiques et phylogénétiques, pp. 17-76. In: F. de Broin and E. Jiménez-Fuentes (Eds.) Comunicaciones del I Simposium Internacional sobre Quelonios Fósiles, París, Octubre, 1983. Studia Geologica Salmanticensia, Volumen Especial 1 (Studia Palaeocheloniologica I) [1984].
Bour, Roger. (1988). Tortues et insularité: les tortues des Seychelles. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 112: 401-418.
Bour, Roger. (2006). An unnamed tortoise from the Seychelles Islands. Emys 13(3): 24-30.
Cuvier, G. L. C. F. D. (1824). Recherches sur les Ossemens Fossiles, ou l’on rétablit les caractères de plusieurs animaux dont les révolu-tions du globe ont détruit les espèces. Paris: Dufour et d’Ocagne, Ed. 2, 5(2):1-547.
Gerlach, Justin. (2004). Giant Tortoises of the Indian Ocean. The genus Dipsochelys inhabiting the Seychelles Islands and the extinct giants of Madagascar and the Mascarenes. Frankfurt: Edition Chimaira, 207 pp.
Gerlach, Justin. (2014). Ecology and status of Western Indian Ocean Aldabrachelys giant tortoises, pp. 229-251. In: Gerlach, J. (ed.). Western Indian Ocean Tortoises: Ecology, Diversity, Evolution, Conservation, Palaeontology. Manchester: Siri Scientific Books.
Gerlach, Justin and Canning, K. L. (1998). Taxonomy of Indian Ocean tortoises (Dipsochelys). Chelonian Conservation and Biology 3: 3-19.
Turtle Extinctions Working Group et al. (2015). Turtles and Tortoises of the World During the Rise and Global Spread of Humanity: First Checklist and Review of Extinct Pleistocene and Holocene Chelonians. Chelonian Research Monographs No. 5: 1-66.
Peter Paul van Dijk, John B. Iverson, Anders G.J. Rhodin,H. Bradley Shaffer, and Roger Bour. (2014). Turtles of the World, 7th Edition: Annotated Checklist of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution with Maps, and Conservation Status. 000.v7. Chelonian Research Monographs (ISSN 1088-7105) No. 5.
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