This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ... 7 (8). Plastron truncate before and behind. Alveolar surfaces of jaws moderately narrow. Digits short. Chrysemys. 8(7). Plastron distinctly emarginate behind. Alveolar surfaces of jaws wider. Digits longer than in Chrysemys. Pseudemys. 9 (5). Plastron deeply emarginate behind, slightly before. Digits ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ... 7 (8). Plastron truncate before and behind. Alveolar surfaces of jaws moderately narrow. Digits short. Chrysemys. 8(7). Plastron distinctly emarginate behind. Alveolar surfaces of jaws wider. Digits longer than in Chrysemys. Pseudemys. 9 (5). Plastron deeply emarginate behind, slightly before. Digits long and fully webbed Malacoclemmys. OlSTUDO, Fleming. Fleming, Philosophy of Zoology, 1822, p. 270. Hoffmann, Bronn's Thier Reich, Reptilien, p. 378. Carapace strongly convex or hemispherical. Plastron large, rounded before and behind, capable of completely closing the carapace, and affixed to the latter by a ligamentous articulation; a transverse movable hinge between the pectoral and abdominal plates, these plates with no wings in adults. Axillary and inguinal plates small or wanting. Digits 5-4 or 5-3, only the terminal phalanges free, with small interdigital webs. Oistudo Carolina, Linn. Box Turtle. Var. Carolina. Testudo Carolina, Linn., Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1758, I., p. 198.-- LeC, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., 1829, III, p. 97. Cistudo Carolina, Dam. et Bibr, Erp. Gt5n, II, 1835, p. 210.-- Holbr, N. A. Herp., 1842, I, p. Sl.pl. 2.-- De Kay, Nat. Hist. N. Y., I, Zool. Ill, Rept. and Amph, 1842, p. 24, pi. 1, fig. 1--Gray, Cat. Tortoises, etc, in Coll. Brit. Mus, 1844, p. 30. Cistudo clausa, subsp. clausa, Davis and Rice, Bull. I11. State Lab. Nat. Hist, I, No. 5,1883, p. 57. Cistudo clausa, Davis and Rice, Bull. Chicago Acad. Sci, 1883. Var. triunguis. Cistudo triunguis, Ag, L., Contr. Nat. Hist. U. 8, 1857, I, p. 445. Cistudo clausa, subsp. triunguis, Davis and Rice, Bull. I11. State Lab. Nat. Hist, I, No. 5, 1883, p. 57. Length of shell about six inches; carapace strongly convex, highest before the middle. Nuchal plate very small,
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