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Geochelone sp. nov. 'Maio'

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Extinct (Fernández-Palacios et al., 2025)

Last record: "After 1462 AD" (Fernández-Palacios et al., 2025)

 

Distribution & Habitat

Maio, Cape Verde Islands, Macaronesia

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Fernández-Palacios, José María, Fructuoso, Melania, Illera, Juan Carlos, Rando, Juan Carlos, de Nascimento, Lea, Fernández-Palacios, Enrique, Patiño, Jairo, Otto, Rüdiger, Castilla-Beltrán, Álvaro, González, Esther Martín, Orihuela-Rivero, Raúl, Alcover, Josep Antoni, Whittaker, Robert J. (2025). A synthesis of terrestrial species extinctions in the Macaronesian Islands and their correspondence with human occupancy. PNAS Nexus 4(8): pgaf215. https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgaf215 [Supplementary data (.docx)]

Mateo, J. A., Geniez, P., Veiret, P. and López-Jurado, L. F. (2022). Reptiles de Macaronesia. Azores-Madeira-Salvajes-Canarias-Cabo Verde. Asociación Herpetológica Española, Madrid. 473 pp.

 

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