Giant tortoise (English Wikipedia)

James Gibbs, Linda Cayot, Washington Tapia Aguilera (7 November 2020). Galapagos Giant Tortoises. Elsevier Science. p. 30. ISBN 9780128175552.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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divingthegalapagos.com

"Floreana History – Pre 1900s". Diving The Galapagos blog. 28 July 2009. Archived from the original on 10 July 2011. Retrieved 26 February 2011.

doi.org

Le M, Raxworthy CJ, McCord WP, Mertz L (August 2006). "A molecular phylogeny of tortoises (Testudines: Testudinidae) based on mitochondrial and nuclear genes". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 40 (2): 517–31. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2006.03.003. PMID 16678445.
Jaffe AL, Slater GJ, Alfaro ME (August 2011). "The evolution of island gigantism and body size variation in tortoises and turtles". Biology Letters. 7 (4): 558–61. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2010.1084. PMC 3130210. PMID 21270022.
Hansen DM, Donlan CJ, Griffiths CJ, Campbell KJ (April 2010). "Ecological history and latent conservation potential: large and giant tortoises as a model for taxon substitutions" (PDF). Ecography. 33 (2): 272–284. Bibcode:2010Ecogr..33..272H. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0587.2010.06305.x. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
Cione AL, Tonni EP, Soibelzon L (2003). "The Broken Zig-Zag: Late Cenozoic large mammal and tortoise extinction in South America". Rev. Mus. Argentino Cienc. Nat. N.S. 5 (1): 1–19. doi:10.22179/REVMACN.5.26. ISSN 1514-5158.
Sterli J (April 2015). "A Review of the Fossil Record of Gondwanan Turtles of the Clade Meiolaniformes". Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. 56 (1): 21–45. doi:10.3374/014.056.0102. hdl:11336/21194. ISSN 0079-032X. S2CID 83799914.
Pérez-García A, Vlachos E, Arribas A (March 2017). "The last giant continental tortoise of Europe: A survivor in the Spanish Pleistocene site of Fonelas P-1". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 470: 30–39. Bibcode:2017PPP...470...30P. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.01.011. hdl:10261/277114.
Harrison, T. (2011). "Tortoises (Chelonii, Testudinidae)". Paleontology and Geology of Laetoli: Human Evolution in Context, Vol. 2: Fossil Hominins and the Associated Fauna. Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology. Springer Science+Business Media. pp. 479–503. doi:10.1007/978-90-481-9962-4_17. ISBN 978-90-481-9961-7.
White AW, Worthy TH, Hawkins S, Bedford S, Spriggs M (August 2010). "Megafaunal meiolaniid horned turtles survived until early human settlement in Vanuatu, Southwest Pacific". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 107 (35): 15512–6. Bibcode:2010PNAS..10715512W. doi:10.1073/pnas.1005780107. PMC 2932593. PMID 20713711.
Braithwaite CJ (November 2016). "The giant tortoise, Aldabrachelys, and its bearing on the biogeography and dispersal of terrestrial biota in the Western Indian Ocean". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 461: 449–459. Bibcode:2016PPP...461..449B. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.08.010.
Hansen, D. M.; Donlan, C. J.; Griffiths, C. J.; Campbell, K. J. (April 2010). "Ecological history and latent conservation potential: large and giant tortoises as a model for taxon substitutions" (PDF). Ecography. 33 (2). Wiley: 272–284. Bibcode:2010Ecogr..33..272H. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0587.2010.06305.x. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 26 February 2011.
Georgalis, Georgios L.; Macaluso, Loredana; Delfino, Massimo (2 April 2021). "A Review of the Fossil Record of Afro-Arabian Turtles of the Clade Testudinoidea". Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. 62 (1). doi:10.3374/014.062.0103. ISSN 0079-032X.
Kehlmaier, Christian; Graciá, Eva; Campbell, Patrick D.; Hofmeyr, Margaretha D.; Schweiger, Silke; Martínez-Silvestre, Albert; Joyce, Walter; Fritz, Uwe (25 November 2019). "Ancient mitogenomics clarifies radiation of extinct Mascarene giant tortoises (Cylindraspis spp.)". Scientific Reports. 9 (1): 17487. Bibcode:2019NatSR...917487K. doi:10.1038/s41598-019-54019-y. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 6877638. PMID 31767921.

galapagos.org

"Giant Tortoises". Galapagos Conservancy, Inc. Archived from the original on 15 October 2015. Retrieved 14 December 2014.

handle.net

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Sterli J (April 2015). "A Review of the Fossil Record of Gondwanan Turtles of the Clade Meiolaniformes". Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. 56 (1): 21–45. doi:10.3374/014.056.0102. hdl:11336/21194. ISSN 0079-032X. S2CID 83799914.
Pérez-García A, Vlachos E, Arribas A (March 2017). "The last giant continental tortoise of Europe: A survivor in the Spanish Pleistocene site of Fonelas P-1". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 470: 30–39. Bibcode:2017PPP...470...30P. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.01.011. hdl:10261/277114.

harvard.edu

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Hansen DM, Donlan CJ, Griffiths CJ, Campbell KJ (April 2010). "Ecological history and latent conservation potential: large and giant tortoises as a model for taxon substitutions" (PDF). Ecography. 33 (2): 272–284. Bibcode:2010Ecogr..33..272H. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0587.2010.06305.x. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
Pérez-García A, Vlachos E, Arribas A (March 2017). "The last giant continental tortoise of Europe: A survivor in the Spanish Pleistocene site of Fonelas P-1". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 470: 30–39. Bibcode:2017PPP...470...30P. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.01.011. hdl:10261/277114.
White AW, Worthy TH, Hawkins S, Bedford S, Spriggs M (August 2010). "Megafaunal meiolaniid horned turtles survived until early human settlement in Vanuatu, Southwest Pacific". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 107 (35): 15512–6. Bibcode:2010PNAS..10715512W. doi:10.1073/pnas.1005780107. PMC 2932593. PMID 20713711.
Braithwaite CJ (November 2016). "The giant tortoise, Aldabrachelys, and its bearing on the biogeography and dispersal of terrestrial biota in the Western Indian Ocean". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 461: 449–459. Bibcode:2016PPP...461..449B. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.08.010.
Hansen, D. M.; Donlan, C. J.; Griffiths, C. J.; Campbell, K. J. (April 2010). "Ecological history and latent conservation potential: large and giant tortoises as a model for taxon substitutions" (PDF). Ecography. 33 (2). Wiley: 272–284. Bibcode:2010Ecogr..33..272H. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0587.2010.06305.x. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 26 February 2011.
Kehlmaier, Christian; Graciá, Eva; Campbell, Patrick D.; Hofmeyr, Margaretha D.; Schweiger, Silke; Martínez-Silvestre, Albert; Joyce, Walter; Fritz, Uwe (25 November 2019). "Ancient mitogenomics clarifies radiation of extinct Mascarene giant tortoises (Cylindraspis spp.)". Scientific Reports. 9 (1): 17487. Bibcode:2019NatSR...917487K. doi:10.1038/s41598-019-54019-y. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 6877638. PMID 31767921.

iucn-tftsg.org

"Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group". Retrieved 24 March 2022.
Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group (2011). "Conservation Biology of Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises". International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

merriam-webster.com

"Definition of giant tortoise". Merriam-Webster.

miami.edu

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Jones Jr RC. "Matter of Time". Miami Magazine Online. Archived from the original on 3 January 2003. Retrieved 26 December 2017.

nationalgeographic.com

animals.nationalgeographic.com

"Galápagos Tortoise: National Geographic". 10 September 2010. Archived from the original on 7 February 2010. Retrieved 26 December 2017.

nationalgeographic.com

Langlois J (22 February 2019). "How an 'extinct' tortoise was rediscovered after a century's absence". Animals. Archived from the original on 23 February 2019. Retrieved 27 September 2019.

naturalis.nl

Hume JP (September 2010). "Mascarene Giant Tortoises – Naturalis Biodiversity Center". naturalis.nl. Naturalis. Archived from the original on 13 December 2014. Retrieved 31 December 2014.

nhm.ac.uk

"Habitat of Dipsochelys (Aldabra giant tortoise)". nhm.ac.uk. National History Museum. Retrieved 31 December 2014.

nih.gov

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Le M, Raxworthy CJ, McCord WP, Mertz L (August 2006). "A molecular phylogeny of tortoises (Testudines: Testudinidae) based on mitochondrial and nuclear genes". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 40 (2): 517–31. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2006.03.003. PMID 16678445.
Jaffe AL, Slater GJ, Alfaro ME (August 2011). "The evolution of island gigantism and body size variation in tortoises and turtles". Biology Letters. 7 (4): 558–61. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2010.1084. PMC 3130210. PMID 21270022.
White AW, Worthy TH, Hawkins S, Bedford S, Spriggs M (August 2010). "Megafaunal meiolaniid horned turtles survived until early human settlement in Vanuatu, Southwest Pacific". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 107 (35): 15512–6. Bibcode:2010PNAS..10715512W. doi:10.1073/pnas.1005780107. PMC 2932593. PMID 20713711.
Kehlmaier, Christian; Graciá, Eva; Campbell, Patrick D.; Hofmeyr, Margaretha D.; Schweiger, Silke; Martínez-Silvestre, Albert; Joyce, Walter; Fritz, Uwe (25 November 2019). "Ancient mitogenomics clarifies radiation of extinct Mascarene giant tortoises (Cylindraspis spp.)". Scientific Reports. 9 (1): 17487. Bibcode:2019NatSR...917487K. doi:10.1038/s41598-019-54019-y. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 6877638. PMID 31767921.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Jaffe AL, Slater GJ, Alfaro ME (August 2011). "The evolution of island gigantism and body size variation in tortoises and turtles". Biology Letters. 7 (4): 558–61. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2010.1084. PMC 3130210. PMID 21270022.
White AW, Worthy TH, Hawkins S, Bedford S, Spriggs M (August 2010). "Megafaunal meiolaniid horned turtles survived until early human settlement in Vanuatu, Southwest Pacific". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 107 (35): 15512–6. Bibcode:2010PNAS..10715512W. doi:10.1073/pnas.1005780107. PMC 2932593. PMID 20713711.
Kehlmaier, Christian; Graciá, Eva; Campbell, Patrick D.; Hofmeyr, Margaretha D.; Schweiger, Silke; Martínez-Silvestre, Albert; Joyce, Walter; Fritz, Uwe (25 November 2019). "Ancient mitogenomics clarifies radiation of extinct Mascarene giant tortoises (Cylindraspis spp.)". Scientific Reports. 9 (1): 17487. Bibcode:2019NatSR...917487K. doi:10.1038/s41598-019-54019-y. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 6877638. PMID 31767921.

petermaas.nl

"Recently Extinct Animals – Species Info – Saddle-backed Rodrigues Giant Tortoise". The Extinction Website. PeterMaas. August 2009. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 31 December 2014.

semanticscholar.org

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Sterli J (April 2015). "A Review of the Fossil Record of Gondwanan Turtles of the Clade Meiolaniformes". Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. 56 (1): 21–45. doi:10.3374/014.056.0102. hdl:11336/21194. ISSN 0079-032X. S2CID 83799914.

torreyaguardians.org

Hansen DM, Donlan CJ, Griffiths CJ, Campbell KJ (April 2010). "Ecological history and latent conservation potential: large and giant tortoises as a model for taxon substitutions" (PDF). Ecography. 33 (2): 272–284. Bibcode:2010Ecogr..33..272H. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0587.2010.06305.x. Retrieved 6 May 2019.

web.archive.org

Jones Jr RC. "Matter of Time". Miami Magazine Online. Archived from the original on 3 January 2003. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
"Galápagos Tortoise: National Geographic". 10 September 2010. Archived from the original on 7 February 2010. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
Hansen, D. M.; Donlan, C. J.; Griffiths, C. J.; Campbell, K. J. (April 2010). "Ecological history and latent conservation potential: large and giant tortoises as a model for taxon substitutions" (PDF). Ecography. 33 (2). Wiley: 272–284. Bibcode:2010Ecogr..33..272H. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0587.2010.06305.x. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 26 February 2011.
"Floreana History – Pre 1900s". Diving The Galapagos blog. 28 July 2009. Archived from the original on 10 July 2011. Retrieved 26 February 2011.
"Giant Tortoises". Galapagos Conservancy, Inc. Archived from the original on 15 October 2015. Retrieved 14 December 2014.
Langlois J (22 February 2019). "How an 'extinct' tortoise was rediscovered after a century's absence". Animals. Archived from the original on 23 February 2019. Retrieved 27 September 2019.
Hume JP (September 2010). "Mascarene Giant Tortoises – Naturalis Biodiversity Center". naturalis.nl. Naturalis. Archived from the original on 13 December 2014. Retrieved 31 December 2014.
"Recently Extinct Animals – Species Info – Saddle-backed Rodrigues Giant Tortoise". The Extinction Website. PeterMaas. August 2009. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 31 December 2014.

wired.com

Keim B (17 August 2010). "Extinct, King Koopa-Style Giant Turtle Found on Pacific Island". Wired. (Popular presentation of some material from the PNAS article)

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Cione AL, Tonni EP, Soibelzon L (2003). "The Broken Zig-Zag: Late Cenozoic large mammal and tortoise extinction in South America". Rev. Mus. Argentino Cienc. Nat. N.S. 5 (1): 1–19. doi:10.22179/REVMACN.5.26. ISSN 1514-5158.
Sterli J (April 2015). "A Review of the Fossil Record of Gondwanan Turtles of the Clade Meiolaniformes". Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. 56 (1): 21–45. doi:10.3374/014.056.0102. hdl:11336/21194. ISSN 0079-032X. S2CID 83799914.
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Georgalis, Georgios L.; Macaluso, Loredana; Delfino, Massimo (2 April 2021). "A Review of the Fossil Record of Afro-Arabian Turtles of the Clade Testudinoidea". Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. 62 (1). doi:10.3374/014.062.0103. ISSN 0079-032X.
Kehlmaier, Christian; Graciá, Eva; Campbell, Patrick D.; Hofmeyr, Margaretha D.; Schweiger, Silke; Martínez-Silvestre, Albert; Joyce, Walter; Fritz, Uwe (25 November 2019). "Ancient mitogenomics clarifies radiation of extinct Mascarene giant tortoises (Cylindraspis spp.)". Scientific Reports. 9 (1): 17487. Bibcode:2019NatSR...917487K. doi:10.1038/s41598-019-54019-y. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 6877638. PMID 31767921.