Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.12991

    Magdalena river turtle

    Date
    1852
    Creator
    Léon Louis Vaillant (1834 - 1914, French) , Zoologist
    Object type
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 296mm
    width (print): 228mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Zoology
          > Herpetology
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
    Description
    Zoological studies of the Magdalena river turtle Podocnemis lewyana. The reptile is native to Colombia, South America. View from below with details of the turtle shell.

    Plate 19 accompanying the paper ‘Ordre des chéloniens et premières familles de l’ordre des sauriens (crocodiliens et caméléoniens), by Auguste Duméril, Archives du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle…’ v.8 (Paris, 1852) pp.209-264.

    Inscribed above: ‘Archives du Muséum. T. VI Pl. XIX’. Inscribed below: ‘I. PODOCNEMIDE DE LEWY. PODOCNEMIS LEWYANA. A. Dum. (Vue en dessous). 2. Carapace de la P de Lewy. Vue de profil. Vaillant Pinx. Vaillant Lith.’

    Auguste Henri André Duméril (1812-1870) was a French zoologist.

    Associated place
    <The World>
       > South America
          > Colombia
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