. Synopsis reptilium : or short descriptions of the species of reptiles. Part I., Cataphracta. Tortoises, crocodiles, and enaliosaurians . KINOSTERNON. 35 /3. Scutellis marginalibus lateralibus sub-latioribus, (v. Bell.) Hab. in America Meridionali; Mexico, H^eigma?m; Brasilia,Spix. (v. t. Mus. Brit. Bell, &c.) The finest species of the genus. Shaws figure is very good, but the anterior marginal plates which exist in his specimen have been omitted by the artist. It varies in regard to the breadth of the dorsal plates and the distance between the dorsal keels. Weigmann, (Isis, xxi. 364,)
. Synopsis reptilium : or short descriptions of the species of reptiles. Part I., Cataphracta. Tortoises, crocodiles, and enaliosaurians . KINOSTERNON. 35 /3. Scutellis marginalibus lateralibus sub-latioribus, (v. Bell.) Hab. in America Meridionali; Mexico, H^eigma?m; Brasilia,Spix. (v. t. Mus. Brit. Bell, &c.) The finest species of the genus. Shaws figure is very good, but the anterior marginal plates which exist in his specimen have been omitted by the artist. It varies in regard to the breadth of the dorsal plates and the distance between the dorsal keels. Weigmann, (Isis, xxi. 364,) refers to Shaws figure, and his description agrees excellently with our species, except that he says sterno antice mohili angustissimo, and areolis Sterni 12, neither of which correspond. The usually accurate Schweiger falls into the same error with regard to the sternal plates, in his description of both the old and young state, but this may originate in the gular plates being crossed by an elevated ridge in the usual place of the suture. All the specimens I have seen have only had eleven. Kinosternon hi-evicaiidatum, Spix, t.
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