Extinct Reunion giant tortoise, Cylindraspis indica (Indian tortoise, Testudo indica) and shells of the extinct saddle-backed Rodrigues giant tortoise, Cylindraspis vosmaeri. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Heath after an illustration by George Shaw from his General Zoology, Amphibia, London, 1801.

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Keywords: amphibia, copperplate, cylindraspis, dr., engraving, extinct, general, george, giant, handcoloured, heath, herpetology, illustration, indian, indica, reunion, rodrigues, saddle-backed, shaw, shell, testudo, tortoise, vosmaeri, zoology