Reptilia · Testudines
Galápagos Giant Tortoise
Chelonoidis niger
Gigantic terrestrial chelonian with individuals living over 150 years and weighing over 300 kg, roaming isolated volcanic islands.
- Realm
- Terrestrial
- Conservation status
- CRCritically Endangered
Data provenance
This range is an occurrence-derived learning extent, not an official assessment range map. See the methodology page for the complete pipeline. GBIF.org occurrence density (GBIF Maps API v2) · 1° global raster; derived from GBIF per-cell occurrence density, vagrant-trimmed by a cumulative record-count threshold, morphologically closed, small-and-distant components pruned, clipped to a Natural Earth 1:110m realm mask.
Method and version Evidence snapshot
A sample of openly-licensed occurrence records retained after quality filtering. 110 licence-filtered records across 4 1° cells, retrieved 2026-08-24.
Inspect on GBIFRetained datasets (8)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- iNaturalist research-grade observations (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- NMNH Extant Biology (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, Division of Reptiles & Amphibians (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)