Green sea turtle, endangered, Chelonia mydas. La tortue franche, Testudo mydas. Handcoloured steel engraving by Madame Félicie Fournier after an illustration by Edouard Travies from Bernard Germain de Lacepede’s Histoire Naturelle de Lacepede, comprenant les cetaces, les quadrupedes ovipares, les serpents et les poissons, Furne et Cie, Paris, 1847.

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