Rafetus: The Curve of Extinction – The Story of the Giant Softshell Turtle of the Yangtze and Red Rivers based on 450 specimens

based on 450 specimens

the edition was limited to these 105 copies (subscriber’s list included)

over light green English marbled boards

Later gray cloth with the spine lettered in black

The purpose of the symposium was to address the relationship between the acquisition of novel locomotor strategies and the origin and radiation of major groups of primates

Rafetus: The Curve of Extinction – The Story of the Giant Softshell Turtle of the Yangtze and Red Rivers based on 450 specimensPp. (8), ii, 174; 120+ color photos, 3 black and white photos, some maps. Publishers original red cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, color pictorial dust jacket, 4to. This work documents the last remaining members of the species, Rafetus swinhoei. This species is found along the Red River and its tributaries in northern Vietnam and in the Yangtze River in China. A related species is found in the basin of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in Iraq,