Three specimens of turtles mb-height 573 29th March 1966

29th March 1966

on 19 October 1783

presented at the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1838]

by Petrus de Aliacus (1490)

Figure 3 Hydromeda tectifera (Snake-necked turtle)

Three specimens of turtles mb-height 573 29th March 1966Zoological studies of three varieties of marine turtles, apparently hatchlings, each viewed from above. Figure 1 'Testudo imbricata' [Hawksbill turtle Eretmochelys imbricate]. Figure 2 'Testudo mydas' [Green sea turtle Chelonia mydas]. Figure 3 'Testudo caretta' [Loggerhead turtle Caretta caretta]. Plate 17 from the book Historia testudinum iconibus illustrata by Johann David Schoepff (Erlangen, 1792). The illustrations are numbered on the plate.