cylindraspis造句

• The shells of the giant tortoises were open-ended; the name " Cylindraspis " actually means cylinder-shaped.
• These resulted in the description of the two species of giant tortoise endemic to Mauritius, the domed Mauritius ( " Cylindraspis triserrata " ).
• The "'Reunion giant tortoise "'( " Cylindraspis indica " ) is an extinct species of tortoise in the Testudinidae family.
• Modern mtDNA studies of bone remains has determined that the " Cylindraspis " species were all descended from one species that colonised Mauritius from Madagascar by sea.
• The "'domed Rodrigues giant tortoise "'( " Cylindraspis peltastes " ) was a species of giant tortoises in the Testudinidae family.
• Mauritius, R閡nion, and Rodrigues were also once each home to one or more species of giant tortoises, now extinct, which comprised the genus " Cylindraspis ".
• 2 ) Jeremy J . Austin and E . Nicholas Arnold " Ancient mitochondrial DNA and morphology elucidate an extinct island radiation of Indian Ocean giant tortoises ( Cylindraspis ) Proc.
• The increasing disappearance of young calvaria trees, is suggested due to " Cylindraspis " tortoises, fruit bats or the broad-billed parrot could have been dispersing the seeds.
• Both species were descended from an ancestral species on Mauritius ( an ancestor of " Cylindraspis inepta " ), which colonised Rodrigues by sea many millions of years ago, and then differentiated into the two Rodrigues species.
• This species in particular seems to have been the ancestor of all the other four species of " Cylindraspis " giant tortoise of the Mascarene islands, and to have accidentally drifted to the surrounding islands of Reunion and Rodrigues in order to do so.
• These findings were made public in December 2005 in the Naturalis museum in Leiden . 63 % of the fossils found in the swamp belonged to turtles of the extinct " Cylindraspis " genus, and 7.1 % belonged to dodos, which had been deposited within several centuries, 4000 years ago.
• The population on Mauritius differentiated into both saddle-backed and domed species, and the ancestors of the saddle-backed species ( " Cylindraspis inepta " ) then colonised Rodrigues ( where they once again differentiated into both saddle-backed and domed species ) and later R閡nion, the most recently formed island.
• It has been suggested that the broad-billed parrot may have depended on dodos and " Cylindraspis " tortoises to eat palm fruits and excrete their seeds, which became food for the parrots . " Anodorhynchus " macaws depended on now-extinct South American megafauna in the same way, but now rely on domesticated cattle for this service.