Caretta imbricata, Merrem

Vanzolini, Paulo E. & Myers, Charles W., 2015, The Herpetological Collection Of Maximilian, Prince Of Wied (1782 - 1867), With Special Reference To Brazilian Materials, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2015 (395), pp. 1-155 : 28-29

Caretta imbricata, Merrem

1824 Isis : 661 (listed).

1825 Beitra¨ge: 24.

19 The large turtle shown laying eggs on a beach in a plate in Reise 1 (after p. 216) is Caretta . This engraving, showing two men watching while a third removes eggs from the hole, is based on a colored sketch by Wied . (The cloaked figure wearing a tall hat represents Wied himself.) Wied’s original colored sketch is reproduced in Bosch (1988: 91). It was copied for publication in the Reise by an unknown artist, who added a gun to the hand of the cloaked figure; an uncropped reproduction of the copy also is shown in Bosch (1986 – 1991, 2/1: 206).

PRESENT STATUS: Eretmochelys imbricata (Linnaeus, 1766) .

REMARKS: No specimens in the collection.