Talk:Galápagos green turtle

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What exactly is a "geographical" turtle? The Green Sea Turtle is actually rather common in the Galapagos, more so than the rest of it's range.

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Have marked the article out fo date because Chelonia mydas agassisi is not recognised as a subspecies. Regards, SunCreator ^(talk) 00:24, 8 February 2011 (UTC)Reply

agreed and both the Reptile database and the IUCN Checklist that are cited as supporting this do not. The citations are not being faithfully used. Cheers Scott Thomson (Faendalimas) ^talk 16:28, 9 October 2019 (UTC)Reply

for the record this is the situation. If your going to use the IUCN Checklist you need to read the annotations, in particular annotation, 7.04 (p234) of TTWG 2017 as follows

07:4. Chelonia mydas: Bowen et al. (1992) showed that recognition of the taxon agassizii Bocourt 1868 renders mydas paraphyletic, and agassizii is no longer generally recognized as either a distinct species or subspecies. See Parham and Zug (1996) and Karl and Bowen (1999) for a complete review.

I recomend merging this page with Chelonia mydas mainpage. Cheers Scott Thomson (Faendalimas) ^talk 16:38, 9 October 2019 (UTC)Reply

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