. Reptiles and birds : a popular account of their various orders : with a description of the habits and economy of the most interesting . Birds; Reptiles. GBOKOTID^. 135 [The Geckotidce are divided into many genera, according to the construction of the toes. Dumeril refers to the comparative short- ness and general structure of the feet and conformation of the toes, which he describes and figures in detail. The lower surface and the sole he states are very dilatable, and furnished with small plates or lamellae, following or overlying each other in a mode which varies in the different species.
. Reptiles and birds : a popular account of their various orders : with a description of the habits and economy of the most interesting . Birds; Reptiles. GBOKOTID^. 135 [The Geckotidce are divided into many genera, according to the construction of the toes. Dumeril refers to the comparative short- ness and general structure of the feet and conformation of the toes, which he describes and figures in detail. The lower surface and the sole he states are very dilatable, and furnished with small plates or lamellae, following or overlying each other in a mode which varies in the different species. The nails are some- times wanting on all the toes, but more frequently hooked, and more or less retractile ; the toes sometimes united at the base, and in Platydactylus the extremity of the toe expands into a fan shape, as in the Tree Frogs. The and soft plates of the lower surface of the toes have various modifications in different genera, which have been made the basis of their arrangement. The Wall Gecko is supposed by Gesner to be the Lizard spoken. Fig. 31.—Platydactylus liomalocephalus. of by Aristophanes and Theophrastus, and the Tarentula of the Italians : and there is little doubt that it was the 'AdKoAa^wr/xc of Aristotle and the ancient Greeks ; it clambered about their walls catching spiders, on which it fed. Schneider has shown it was the Stellio of Pliny. Linnajus mentions three species, which he places with his great genus Lacerta. Modem herpetologists, following Cuvier and Dumeril, class them according to the struc- ture under the several genera Ascalabotes, Platydactylus, Hemi-. 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 Figuier, Louis, 1819-1894; Gillmore, Parker. New York : D. Appleton
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