This document lists endemic species found in the Galapagos Islands and provides information about the Pinta Island tortoise. It includes a list of 17 endemic bird species and 1 endemic reptile species, the Pinta Island tortoise. Details are given about the physical characteristics, diet, and lifestyle of the Pinta Island tortoise, including that it has a dull brown shell, eats plants like cacti and grasses, and can withdraw into its shell for protection. The document notes that the Pinta Island tortoise was a subspecies native only to Pinta Island that is now extinct, with the last individual dying in 2012.

1. Endemic species
Name:
Emanuel Alejandro Beltrán López

2. List of species
 Galápagos damsel
 Scalloped Hammerhead Shark
 Galápagos bat fish
 Penguin
 Waved Albatross
 Red-billed Tropicbird
 Brown Pelican
 Blue-footed Booby
 Nazca Booby
 Red-footed Booby
 Frigate Bird
 Great Blue Heron
 Yellow-crowned Night Heron
 Common Egret
 Cattle Egret
 Galápagos Hawk
 Lava Heron & Striated Heron
 Lava Gull
 Brown Noddy Tern
 Galápagos Dove
 Darwin’s Finch

3. Resume
Food
Life Style
characteristics
Pinta Island tortoise

4. Resume
 The Pinta Island tortoise
(Chelonoidis nigra
abingdonii), also known
as the Pinta giant
tortoise, Abingdon Island
tortoise, or Abingdon
Island giant tortoise,was
a subspecies of
Galápagos tortoise native
to Ecuador's Pinta Island.

5. Characteristics
 The tortoises have a large bony carapace (shell) of
a dull brown color. The plates of the shell are
fused with the ribs in a rigid protective structure
that is integral to the skeleton. Lichens can grow
on the shells of these slow-moving animals.
Tortoises keep a characteristic scute (shell
segment) pattern on their shell throughout life,
though the annual growth bands are not useful
for determining age because the outer layers are
worn off with time. A tortoise can withdraw its
head, neck and forelimbs into its shell for
protection. The legs are large and stumpy, with
dry scaly skin and hard scales. The front legs have
five claws, the back legs four.

6. Food
 The tortoises are herbivores that
consume a diet of cacti, grasses, leaves,
lichens, and berries. They have been
documented feeding on Hippomane
mancinella ('poison apple'), the
endemic guava Psidium galapageium,
the water fern Azolla microphylla, and
the bromeliad Tillandsia insularis.[79] A
tortoise eats an average of 32–36
kilograms (70–80 lb) per day[citation
needed], with a digestive efficiency
roughly equal to that of hindgut
fermenting herbivorous mammals such
as horses and rhinos.

7. Life Style