High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Chelonoidis nigra (the Galapagos tortoise) is a tortoise species endemic to the Galapagos Islands. It had at least 12, and possibly up to 15, subspecies. Only eleven subspecies now exist: one on each of the islands of Santiago, Santa Cruz, San Cristobal, Pinzon, and Espanola; one on each of the five main volcanoes of the largest island Isabela (Wolf, Darwin, Alcedo, Sierra Negra, and Cerro Azul); and one, abingdoni from Pinta Island, which is considered extinct as of June 24, 2012. The subspecies inhabiting Floreana island (C. n. nigra) is thought to have been hunted to extinction by 1850, only years after Charles Darwin´s landmark visit of 1835 in which he saw carapaces but no live tortoises on the island. Данное издание представляет собой компиляцию сведений, находящихся в свободном доступе в среде Интернет в целом, и в информационном сетевом ресурсе "Википедия" в частности. Собранная по частотным запросам указанной тематики, данная...