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Milius, S. (2013). Life: A giant tortoise by any other name: lengthy battle ends with moniker for indian ocean reptile. Scienece News, 183(10), 16.
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| Resource type: Journal Article DOI: 10.1002/scin.5591831020 BibTeX citation key: anon2013.15438 View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: Schildkröten - turtles + tortoises, Systematik - taxonomy Creators: Milius Collection: Scienece News |
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Testudinidae One of taxonomy's most passionately disputed arguments over a scientific name has finally come to an end. After nearly two centuries of ambiguity, years of fierce debate and a record number of formal comments on the proposed name, a commission has declared gigantea the one true species term for the Aldabra giant tortoises. That species descriptor will be used as part of a two word Latin name that puts the species into a genus with its near relatives. Meet Aldabrachelys gigantea. The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature oversees standards in the naming of animals. Naming debates can get "fractious" says executive secretary Ellinor Michel.
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