Amphibia Gallery

Rhacophorus, Tree frog

Tree Frog from Sarawak. Drawing of a tree frog by Alfred Russel Wallace - hand coloured. Drawn looking down onto the back of the frog spread out showing webbed feet. Writing in the bottom left hand corner Rhacophorus n s, Treefrog sarawak (a little under natural size). In right hand corner Back & limbs dark green, beneath and under toes yel, web black at base, yellow taged? at margins, legs not at all banded, glossy dark uniform green

© Mary Evans / Natural History Museum

Caspian turtle or striped-neck terrapin, Mauremys caspica

Caspian turtle or striped-neck terrapin, Mauremys caspica (Clemmys caspica). Handcoloured lithograph by Gebhart after an illustration by Sandler from Georg Friedrich Treitschke's Gallery of Natural History, Naturhistorischer Bildersaal des Thierreiches, Liepzig, 1842. Date:

© Florilegius/Mary Evans

Amphibia, Bildersaal, Caspian, Caspica, Clemmys, Des, Friedrich, Gallery, Georg, Handcoloured, History, Lithograph, Mauremys, Natural, Naturhistorischer, Sandler, Striped Neck, Terrapin, Thierreiches, Treitschke, Turtle

Serrated tortoise and diamondback terrapin

Serrated tortoise or Kalahari tent tortoise, Psammobates oculiferus (Testudo serrata), and diamondback terrapin, Malaclemys terrapin (concentric tortoise, Testudo concentrica). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Heath after an illustration by George Shaw from his General Zoology, Amphibia, London, 1802. Date:

© Florilegius/Mary Evans