Saddle-backed Rodrigues giant tortoise

Saddle-backed Rodrigues giant tortoise
Engraving of the only taxidermy specimen

Extinct (around 1800)  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Superfamily: Testudinoidea
Family: Testudinidae
Genus: †Cylindraspis
Species:
†C. vosmaeri
Binomial name
†Cylindraspis vosmaeri
Suckow, 1798
Synonyms[2]
  • Testudo indica vosmaeri
    Suckow, 1798
  • ? Testudo rotunda
    Latreille, 1801
  • ? Chersine rotunda
    — Merrem, 1820
  • Testudo vosmaeri
    — Fitzinger, 1826
  • Geochelone (Cylindraspis) vosmaeri
    — Fitzinger, 1835
  • ? Geochelone (Geochelone) rotunda
    — Fitzinger, 1835
  • Cylindraspis vosmaeri
    — Fitzinger, 1843
  • Testudo rodericensis
    Günther, 1873
  • Testudo commersoni
    Vaillant, 1898
  • Testudo commersonii
    Siebenrock, 1909
    (ex errore)
  • Geochelone commersoni
    — Pritchard, 1967
  • Cylindraspis commersonii
    — Wilms, 1999

The saddle-backed Rodrigues giant tortoise (Cylindraspis vosmaeri) is an extinct species of giant tortoise in the family Testudinidae. The species was endemic to Rodrigues. Human exploitation caused the extinction of this species around 1800.[3]

  1. ^ World Conservation Monitoring Centre (1996). "Cylindraspis vosmaeri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T6065A12391587. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T6065A12391587.en. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
  2. ^ Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World". Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2): 278–279. doi:10.3897/vz.57.e30895. ISSN 1864-5755. S2CID 87809001.
  3. ^ Pedrono, Miguel; Griffiths, Owen L.; Clausen, Alison; Smith, Lora L.; Griffiths, Christine J.; Wilmé, Lucienne; Burney, David A. (2013). "Using a surviving lineage of Madagascar's vanished megafauna for ecological restoration". Biological Conservation. 159: 501–506. Bibcode:2013BCons.159..501P. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2012.11.027.