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Centrochelys burchardi
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<p>The Tenerife giant tortoise (<i>Centrochelys burchardi</i>) is an extinct species of <a href="/facts/Cryptodira/F85cj55N">cryptodire</a> turtle in the family <a href="/facts/Testudinidae/XWKByUCz">Testudinidae</a> endemic to the island of <a href="/facts/Tenerife/FlyhXV7M">Tenerife</a>, in the <a href="/facts/Canary_Islands/7lfpqymu">Canary Islands</a> during the <a href="/facts/Middle_Pleistocene/UIH3W1Uk">Middle Pleistocene</a>. </p>