Taxonomic Swap 75943 (Committed on 2021-09-30)

Floreana Giant Tortoise is extinct, the name has a confusing history, also there's some effort to find turtles with Floreana ancestry and reintroduce them https://www.galapagos.org/newsroom/floreana-tortoise-species-resurrection/
But Reptile Database a no longer considers Chelonoidis nigra an active taxon and it now includes Chelonoidis nigra as a synonym of 13 other turtles
https://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/search?search=Chelonoidis+nigra&submit=Search
so I think its safest to swap this into the genus rather than try to map it to some other species

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Added by bobby23 on May 13, 2020 03:46 PM | Committed by loarie on September 30, 2021
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