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Española Giant Tortoise

Chelonoidis hoodensis

Classification

The Hood Island giant tortoise (Chelonoidis hoodensis), also known commonly as the Española giant tortoise, is a subspecies of Galápagos tortoise native to Española Island in the Galápagos. Taxonomy The first description of the subspecies was published in 1907 by John Van Denburgh, who used the name Testudo hoodensis for it. Española Island used to be called Hood Island, and that was the name which Van Denburgh knew the island by when he gave the subspecies the name hoodensis.

Distribution

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