Rafetus: The Curve of Extinction – The Story of the Giant Softshell Turtle of the Yangtze and Red Rivers the edition was limited to

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

based on 450 specimens

This fifth volume is the complete work on the horseshoe crabs and crustaceans of Mexico

published in 1907)

Rafetus: The Curve of Extinction – The Story of the Giant Softshell Turtle of the Yangtze and Red Rivers the edition was limited toPp. (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,