. Catalogue of the chelonians, rhynchocephalians, and crocodiles in the British Museum (Natural History). New ed. By George Albert Boulenger. Chelonia (Genus); Crocodiles; Rhynchocephalia. Shell of Macroclemmys temminckii. of the bridge one seventh to one ninth of the length of the plastron; the hypoplastra take a rather greater share in the formation of the bridge than the hyoplastra. Plastral shields subject to great varia- tion ; the arrangement in the three specimens in the Museum is shown by the following figures (fig. 7). Fig. h affords good support to the view that the shield covering t
. Catalogue of the chelonians, rhynchocephalians, and crocodiles in the British Museum (Natural History). New ed. By George Albert Boulenger. Chelonia (Genus); Crocodiles; Rhynchocephalia. Shell of Macroclemmys temminckii. of the bridge one seventh to one ninth of the length of the plastron; the hypoplastra take a rather greater share in the formation of the bridge than the hyoplastra. Plastral shields subject to great varia- tion ; the arrangement in the three specimens in the Museum is shown by the following figures (fig. 7). Fig. h affords good support to the view that the shield covering the bridge is the displaced abdominal; it also offers the striking example of an intergular, placed as in Chelodina ; fig. c shows a pair of intergulars, as in the fossil genus 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 British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Boulenger, George Albert, 1858-1937. London Printed by order of the Trustees
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