Description
Coloured etching by G. Edwards after himself.
Inscription: The small mud tortoise, smelling strong of musk, having a sharp norn poynted tayl from Pensilvania. Drawn from nature of the lignes of life, by George Edwards. September 1757
Image Licence
CC BY 4.0
Image Credit
image courtesy of Wellcome Library, London
Location
North America
Medium
Print
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Category
Flora & Fauna
TWW Comment
Mud Tortoise
Also found in South America. Also see: Gleanings of natural history : exhibiting figures of quadrupeds, birds, insects, plants &c., most of which have not, till now, been either figured or described : with descriptions of seventy different..by George Edwards, 1758, Vol 2, Pt 6, P 165, Illustration 287 (https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50289584)
