Chelonoidis sp. nov. 'Crooked Island'
Crooked Island giant tortoise
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: AD 1025-1165 (Steadman et al., 2019)
Distribution
Crooked Island, Bahamas
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Kehlmaier, Christian et al. (2021). Ancient mitogenomics elucidates diversity of extinct West Indian tortoises. Scientific Reports 11: 3224.
David W. Steadman, Hayley M. Singleton, Kelly M. Delancy, Nancy A.Albury, J. Angel Soto-Centeno, Harlan Gough, Neil Duncan, Janet Franklin & William F. Keegan. (2017). Late Holocene Historical Ecology: The Timing of Vertebrate Extirpation on Crooked Island, Commonwealth of The Bahamas. The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, DOI:10.1080/15564894.2017.1305469.
Steadman, David W. et al. (2019). The paleoecology and extinction of endemic tortoises in the Bahamian Archipelago. The Holocene. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683619887412 [Abstract]
http://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/22502/chelonoidis-sp-crooked-island