Species Pinta Island Tortoise

Pinta Island Tortoise

The Pinta Island tortoise (Chelonoidis nigra abingdonii), also known as the Pinta giant turtles, Abingdon Island tortoise, or Abingdon Island giant tortoise, was a subspecies of Galápagos tortoise native to Ecuador's Pinta Island.

The subspecies was described by Albert Günther in 1877 after specimens arrived in London. By the end of the 19th cen

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