. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. LOVERIDGE AND WILLIAMS: AFRICAN CRYPTODIKA ;]-(â ploegskaar-skilpad; rooi-skilpad; skaar-skilpad (Afrikaans, all Hewitt :1937e). Illustrations. There are excellent figures in Gray (1831 :pls. i-ii), and Bell (1836), the latter reproduced in Sowerby and Lear (1872:pl. xix). Description. Beak weakly or strongly hooked, bi- or tricuspid, edge of jaws very weakly serrate; prefrontal divided longi- tudinally, sometimes separated from the frontal by a small scale; frontal large, or occasionally divided longitudinally,^ flan
. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. LOVERIDGE AND WILLIAMS: AFRICAN CRYPTODIKA ;]-(â ploegskaar-skilpad; rooi-skilpad; skaar-skilpad (Afrikaans, all Hewitt :1937e). Illustrations. There are excellent figures in Gray (1831 :pls. i-ii), and Bell (1836), the latter reproduced in Sowerby and Lear (1872:pl. xix). Description. Beak weakly or strongly hooked, bi- or tricuspid, edge of jaws very weakly serrate; prefrontal divided longi- tudinally, sometimes separated from the frontal by a small scale; frontal large, or occasionally divided longitudinally,^ flanked by 4-5 small scales; upper head shields small, irregular; fore- limb, more especially anteroventrally, with several rows of mod- erately large, subequal, juxtaposed or slightly separated scutes forming 2-3 longitudinal and 7-9 transverse series from elbow. Fig. 36. Skull of Chersina anaulata ( 67-4-2-152). Condylobasal length 28 mm. (S. McDoweU del.) (on the lower or inuer side of which is an isolated large scute) to outer claw; on the upper or outer aspect of the wrist is a semi-bracelet of large scutes; claws 5; hinder side of thigh without large tubercles; heel with one or more enlarged flat scales; tail without terminal clawlike tubercle. Carapace elongate, moderately convex, sides descending abruptly, deeply notched in nuchal region, anterior margins ex- panded but neither reverted nor serrated, posterior margins not or but moderately expanded, reverted, somewhat sinuate; dorsal 1 Diviflod in ;i Steinkopf spt>oimn. fide Werntr (1910a).. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology. Cambridge, Mass. : The Museum
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