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Red-footed Tortoise

Chelonoidis carbonarius

Classification

Centrochelys atlantica is a putative extinct species of tortoise supposed to have lived in the Pleistocene recorded in the volcanic crater on Sal, Cape Verde. Tortoise fossils were described but not named from the crater in 1935. Four further bones from a private collector supposed to have been found in the same crater were described in 1998 as a new species similar to the extant Testudo calcarata (= Centrochelys sulcata), differentiated from C.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Brazil · 617Peru · 8Germany · 2Spain · 2France