. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. HERPETOLOGY OF JAPAN, 521 shell a raised keel anteriorly as broad as interorbital space and eye- lids together, posteriorly not wider than this space plus half an eyelid; on each side of the keel a perceptible depression, the skin of the carapace with numerous more or less disrupted, raised, longitudinal lines studded with tubercles, these lines being more wavy and parallel with the axis of the body near the middle of the back, and straighter, less tubercular, and more parallel with the periphery toward the edge of the carapace; the tubercle
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. HERPETOLOGY OF JAPAN, 521 shell a raised keel anteriorly as broad as interorbital space and eye- lids together, posteriorly not wider than this space plus half an eyelid; on each side of the keel a perceptible depression, the skin of the carapace with numerous more or less disrupted, raised, longitudinal lines studded with tubercles, these lines being more wavy and parallel with the axis of the body near the middle of the back, and straighter, less tubercular, and more parallel with the periphery toward the edge of the carapace; the tubercles gather into a large cluster on the nuchal. 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 United States National Museum; Smithsonian Institution; United States. Dept. of the Interior. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc. ]; for sale by the Supt. of Docs. , U. S. Govt Print. Off.
Size: 1268px × 1971px
Photo credit: © Book Worm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorun, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1870, booksubjectscience
