Scientific Illustration

biomedicalephemera:

rhamphotheca:

Arakan Forest Turtle (Geoemyda depressa now Heosemys depressa)

- Arakan Hill Range, Western Mayanmar

from Anatomical and zoological researches v.2., London, B. Quaritch, 1878.

(via: biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34177985)

* The Arakan Forest Turtle was thought extinct since 1908 until spotted in a Chinese food market in 1994! 

Speaking of Lazarus taxon…