This lines up with how it took 300 years for the giant tortoise to receive a scientific name. The process to get this required delivering a specimen back to England, and they were just too delicious.
Is it true? There are museum record of skeletons from the early 19th century, which is around the right time, and there are Latin names from around then too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsoWLFbnFIk