Medical and physical researches, or, Original memoirs in medicine, surgery, physiology, geology, zoology, and comparative anatomy . sacrum ; * In the last edition of Cuviers Regne Animal, vol. 2. p. 45, is appended the fol-lowing note in relation to the new genus Cvclura. Iguana cyclura, Cuv. Note.—II me semble aussi que cet iguane est le mdme que M. Harlan (An. desSc. Phila. p. iv. pi xv.) appelle Cyclura carinata; mais alors il y aurait,comme pour lamblyrhynchus, erreur relativement aux dents palatines. Ces dentsexistent dans tous nies iguanes, je men suis assure. The error, however,
Medical and physical researches, or, Original memoirs in medicine, surgery, physiology, geology, zoology, and comparative anatomy . sacrum ; * In the last edition of Cuviers Regne Animal, vol. 2. p. 45, is appended the fol-lowing note in relation to the new genus Cvclura. Iguana cyclura, Cuv. Note.—II me semble aussi que cet iguane est le mdme que M. Harlan (An. desSc. Phila. p. iv. pi xv.) appelle Cyclura carinata; mais alors il y aurait,comme pour lamblyrhynchus, erreur relativement aux dents palatines. Ces dentsexistent dans tous nies iguanes, je men suis assure. The error, however, is not with us; we can repeat with confidence, what wewere well assured of before, that the species of our Cyclura, are destitute of pala-tine teeth. 204 CYCLURA. scales on the sides, thighs and legs, hristled over withminute spines: tail cylindrical, tapering gradually to-wards the point; spiny rings encircling the tail, separatedby two rows of depressed scales without spines above;spines on the rings nearly equal, extending to the end ofthe tail. EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. No. 1.—Cyclura 2.—Cyclura
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