. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. 22 THE LUTH, OR LEATHERY TURTLE. The Leathery Turtle feeds on fish, Crustacea, mollusks, radiates, and other animals, and its flesh seems to be hurtful, causing many symptoms of poisoning in those who eat it. This species is lemarkable for having no horny plates, the bones of the carapace and plastn)n being covered with a strong leatliery skin, sniootli in the adult animal, but covered with tubercles in the young. Along the back run seven ridges, sharp, and slightly toothed in the full-g
. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. 22 THE LUTH, OR LEATHERY TURTLE. The Leathery Turtle feeds on fish, Crustacea, mollusks, radiates, and other animals, and its flesh seems to be hurtful, causing many symptoms of poisoning in those who eat it. This species is lemarkable for having no horny plates, the bones of the carapace and plastn)n being covered with a strong leatliery skin, sniootli in the adult animal, but covered with tubercles in the young. Along the back run seven ridges, sharp, and slightly toothed in the full-grown Turtle, but bluntly tubercled in the young. The eye is very curious, as the lids are set vertically instead of horizontally, and when the creature opens and shuts its eyes, have a very singular eft'ect. The jaws are very formidable, being shari)ly edged, deeply scooped with three rounded notches in the front of the upper Jaw, so as to form two curved sharply pointed teeth, and the extremity of the lower jaw is strongly -=^ "—^ " ...^.^j^. LUTH, OR LEATHERY 'VUB:n,—lkrm,atuchdys aji-icuxa. The legs of the Leathery Turtle are very long, especially the two fore-limbs, whicli, in a specimen measuring eight feet in total length, were nearly three feet long, and more than nine inches Avide. The feet are not furnished with claws, but the toes have- a, little horny scale at their tips, whicli take the jilace of the claws. The general color of tliis animal is dark brown, with pale yellow spots, but sometimes the skin is irregularly pied with black and white. This great creature is essentially a sea-going one, though j^erhaps not more so than the Hawk"s-bill, Green, and Loggerhead species. Its very large flippers rather suggest the above statement. Tlie editor of this edition has taken the liberty to drop from the original text the state- ment that this Tortoise resorts to the Tortugas Islands for breeding purposes. This statement has no foundation
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