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Red-footed tortoises have many common names: red-leg, red-legged, or red-foot tortoise (often without the hyphen) and the savanna tortoise, as well as local names, such as carumbe or karumbe, which means 'slow moving' (Brazil, Paraguay), wayapopi or morrocoy (Venezuela, Colombia), and variations of jabuti such as japuta and jabuti-piranga (Brazil, Argentina). [5]
Red-footed tortoise: Present on Barbuda; probably extirpated from Antigua. Scaly sea turtles (Cheloniidae) Species Common name(s) Notes Image Caretta caretta: Loggerhead turtle: Endangered. Recorded in water only. Chelonia mydas: Green turtle: Endangered. Recorded nesting on Antigua, Barbuda and some of the offshore Islands. Eretmochelys ...
Red-footed tortoise: Scaly sea turtles (Cheloniidae) Species Common name(s) Notes Image Caretta caretta: Loggerhead turtle: Endangered: Chelonia mydas: Green turtle: Endangered: Eretmochelys imbricata: Hawksbill turtle: Critically endangered: Leathery sea turtles (Dermochelyidae) Species Common name(s) Notes Image Dermochelys coriacea ...
Unfortunately, they cannot be released back into the wild because they could transmit diseases that can affect the wild population, so a solution was created – a tortoise conservation program.
Red-footed tortoise: Scaly sea turtles (Cheloniidae) Species Common name(s) Notes Image Caretta caretta: Loggerhead turtle: Endangered. Very rarely recorded around Montserrat. Not recorded nesting on Montserrat. Chelonia mydas: Green turtle: Endangered. Resident in waters around Montserrat. Recorded nesting. Eretmochelys imbricata: Hawksbill turtle
Red-footed tortoise: Introduced. Scaly sea turtles (Cheloniidae) Species Common name(s) Notes Image Caretta caretta: Loggerhead turtle: Endangered. Chelonia mydas: Green turtle: Endangered. Eretmochelys imbricata: Hawksbill turtle: Critically Endangered. Leathery sea turtles (Dermochelyidae) Species Common name(s) Notes Image Dermochelys ...
Red-footed tortoise: Scaly sea turtles (Cheloniidae) Species Common name(s) Notes Image Caretta caretta: Loggerhead turtle: Endangered. No reliable reports of nesting in Anguilla. [3] Chelonia mydas: Green turtle: Endangered. Recorded nesting in Anguilla, principally on Dog Island and the Prickly Pear Cays. Eretmochelys imbricata: Hawksbill turtle
C. carbonarius – red-footed tortoise [2] C. chilensis – Chaco tortoise [2] C. denticulatus – yellow-footed tortoise [2] C. niger – Galápagos tortoise – with the following subspecies: [2] [7] † C. n. abingdonii – Pinta Island tortoise (extinct as of 2012, but could be bred back from hybrids and/or persist as lone individuals) [2] [8]