The Fernandina Island Galápagos tortoise, Chelonoidis niger phantasticus, is a subspecies of Galápagos tortoise discovered in 1906 and long thought extinct, until a single female was found living on Fernandina Island by an expedition in February 2019. A genetic test carried out in May 2021 by scientists at the California Academy of Sciences confirmed that the tortoise found in 2019 does belong to the subspecies phantasticus, whose name had often been misspelled phantastica since an error introduced in the 1980s, corrected in 2017. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Scientific NameChelonoidis phantastica 3 Conservation Status Classification
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Source Wikidata: Fernandina Island Galápagos Tortoise
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1. Wikidata (taxon extant/extinct status)
Wikimedia Foundation / Wikidata contributorsQ2739149, descriptionView the Source 2. UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat): Species+: Chelonoidis niger
UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat)Species+ taxon_concepts, id 68363Quote, Species+ taxon_concepts, id 68363
"appendix":"I","change_type":"+","effective_at":"1975-07-01","annotation":"Originally listed as Chelonoidis nigra, which became a synonym of Chelonoidis niger in 2017, following taxonomic changes adopted at CoP17."
3. Wikidata: Fernandina Island Galápagos Tortoise
Child Taxon Of: Chelonoidis, Wikidata P171 (parent taxon) claim, rank=normal, target=Q2080003 (Chelonoidis)View the Source 4. Fernandina Island Galápagos tortoise (Wikipedia)
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Chelonoidis niger phantasticus (commonly known as the Fernandina Island Galápagos tortoise or Narborough Island giant tortoise) is a subspecies of Galápagos tortoise that was discovered in 1906 and thought extinct, until a single female was discovered living on Fernandina Island by an expedition in February 2019.
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