Mounted snapping turtle skeleton, 1855 [WAM 00179]

Mounted snapping turtle skeleton, 1855 [WAM 00179]

Warren Anatomical Museum

Zoology

Osteology

Reptiles

Turtles

Articulated skeleton of a snapping turtle mounted on black painted wooden base

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

1855

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See Warren Anatomical Museum Catalog Number 00178 for additional snapping turtle skeleton.

See Warren Anatomical Museum Catalog Number 00180 for loggerhead turtle skeleton.

See Warren Anatomical Museum Catalog Number 00181 for green turtle skull.

Osteological Preparation: Non-Human

J. B. S. Jackson, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Warren Anatomical Museum (Boston: A. Williams & Co., 1870), 16.

image

1 osteological preparation

Osteological preparation, zoological

physical object

Warren Anatomical Museum Catalog Number: 00179

This skeleton was prepared by Oliver Wendell Holmes and donated by him to the Warren Anatomical Museum in 1855.

Skeleton

21 H x 79 W x 31 D cm