Species of sea turtle, possibly the loggerhead sea turtle, Caretta caretta. De Test. mar. De Testudine Marina. Woodcut engraving after an illustration by Lucas Schan and Conrad Gessner from Conrad Gessner’s Historiae Animalium, De Quadrupedibus Oviparis, (Natural history of animals: oviparous quadrupeds), Frankfurt, Wechel for Cambier, 1586.

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