Green sea turtle, endangered, Chelonia mydas 1, and loggerhead sea turtle, vulnerable, Caretta caretta 2. Reisenschildkrote, Tortue franche ou Mydas, Testudo mydas, Tortue Caouane, die Cauane, Testudo caretta. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Carl Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1810. A 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with almost 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830.

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