. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. 170 BULLETIN : MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY each species. Only once has the anatomy of an African species been studied adequately, and this was done on non-African ma- terial. We refer to the very old but classic work of Boj anus (1819-1821) on Emys orbicularis. Less meritorious, but possibly based on African specimens, at least in part, is that of Thomson (1932) on "the Tortoise" ( "Testudo graeca" = liermanni, and "Testudo ihera" = graeca). Other anatomical discussions involving Af
. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. 170 BULLETIN : MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY each species. Only once has the anatomy of an African species been studied adequately, and this was done on non-African ma- terial. We refer to the very old but classic work of Boj anus (1819-1821) on Emys orbicularis. Less meritorious, but possibly based on African specimens, at least in part, is that of Thomson (1932) on "the Tortoise" ( "Testudo graeca" = liermanni, and "Testudo ihera" = graeca). Other anatomical discussions involving African turtles either mention African forms inci- dentally or in a more general context ( sundry papers by Siebenrock), or else record anatomical observations of no great /-Sf^^ /h V e^ \ P / abd hypo ' \ f P xiphT^ Van B Fig. 1. Clemmys caspica leprosa: diagram of shell to show nomenclature of horny scutes and bony plates, the latter's abbreviations underlined in the figure and italicized below. A, Carapace: c l-4 = costals; m 2, 10 = second and tenth marginals; n l-7 = neurals; nu = nuchal scute; nu = nuchal bone ; p 2, 9 = second and ninth peripherals; py = pygal; spy = suprapygal; v 2 = second vertebral. B, Plastron; abd = abdominal; an = anal; ent = entoplastron; epi = epiplastron; f = femoral; g = gular; h = humeral; hyo = hyoplastron; hypo = hypoplastron; p = pectoral; xiphi = xiphiplastron. ? (P. Washer del.). 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 Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology. Cambridge, Mass. : The Museum
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