Description of a New Galapagos Giant Tortoise Species (Chelonoidis; Testudines: Testudinidae) from Cerro Fatal on Santa Cruz Island

• Nikos Poulakakis ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nikos Poulakakis, Danielle L. Edwards

  Affiliations Department of Biology, University of Crete, Vassilika Vouton, Gr-71300, Heraklion, Greece, Natural History Museum of Crete, University of Crete, Knossos Av., GR-71409, Heraklion, Greece

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• Danielle L. Edwards ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nikos Poulakakis, Danielle L. Edwards

  Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, 21 Sachem St. New Haven, Connecticut, 06520, United States of America, Life and Environmental Sciences, University of California, Merced, 5200 N Lake Rd, Merced, California, 95343, United States of America

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• Ylenia Chiari,

  Affiliation Department of Biology, University of South Alabama, LSCB 123, 5871 USA Dr. N, Mobile, Alabama, 36688, United States of America

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• Ryan C. Garrick,

  Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi, 38677, United States of America

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• Michael A. Russello,

  Affiliation Department of Biology, University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus, Kelowna, BC V1V 1V7, Canada

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• Edgar Benavides,

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, 21 Sachem St. New Haven, Connecticut, 06520, United States of America

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• Gregory J. Watkins-Colwell,

  Affiliation Division of Vertebrate Zoology, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, 170 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, Connecticut, 06520, United States of America

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• Scott Glaberman,

  Affiliation Department of Biology, University of South Alabama, LSCB 123, 5871 USA Dr. N, Mobile, Alabama, 36688, United States of America

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• Washington Tapia,

  Affiliations Department of Applied Research, Galapagos National Park Service, Puerto Ayora, Galapagos, Ecuador, Galapagos Conservancy, Fairfax, Virginia, 22030, United States of America

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• James P. Gibbs,

  Affiliation College of Environmental Science & Forestry, State University of New York, Syracuse, New York, 13210, United States of America

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• Linda J. Cayot,

  Affiliation Galapagos Conservancy, Fairfax, Virginia, 22030, United States of America

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• Adalgisa Caccone

  * E-mail: adalgisa.caccone@yale.edu

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, 21 Sachem St. New Haven, Connecticut, 06520, United States of America

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