Talk:Galapagos land iguana

A fact from Galapagos land iguana appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 20 October 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the stock for the captive breeding program of the Galapagos Land Iguana descended from iguanas which William Randolph Hearst translocated from Baltra Island to North Seymour Island in the 1930s?

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Two? or three?[edit]

"two taxonomically distinct forms of C. subcristatus inhabiting the western part of the islands and the other in the central part" Is "another" intended?--Wetman 20:09, 19 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Freudian slip...I'm of the belief that they're all the same species and differences are merely that of being "local variants", I fixed it.--Mike Searson 20:46, 19 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hah! that's perfectly clear now. Thanks. --Wetman 21:34, 19 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Naming[edit]

Just wondering. Shouldn't this be Galapagos land iguana per [1] since it's stated in the WP:AAR that we follow that? Shrumster (talk) 08:47, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It is only called "Iguana Terrestria (sp?)" in Galapagos. No reference to that in the article.

"Iguana Marina" is the black sea iguana.

Also there are: "Tortuga Terrestria" (Land Turtle, aka Tortiose) and "Tortuge Marina" (Marine Turtle, aka Sea Turtle in English). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.16.234.64 (talk) 03:38, 2 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Move discussion in progress[edit]

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Requested move[edit]

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The result of the move request was: page moved per nom. DrKiernan (talk) 20:32, 4 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Galapagos Land Iguana → Galapagos land iguana – -> sentence case species common name as specified in WP:MOS. WolfmanSF (talk) 07:27, 26 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Support per nom. --BDD (talk) 17:14, 3 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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William Randolph Taylor[edit]

The article lists that William Randolph Hearst transferred the iguanas, but it seems likely that Allan G Hancock (with fellow traveller William Randolph Taylor) did this during an expedition in 1933. https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/auth_exp_fbr_eace0053 https://www.si.edu/object/siris_arc_380988 68.229.136.203 (talk) 23:13, 23 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]