Nova Guinea : résultats de l'expédition scientifique néerlandaise à la Nouvelle-Guinée en 1903[-1920] . è. Fig. 8. Carettochelys insculpta Spécimen of 455 mm. length; b. younger spécimen. young spécimens of différent length and adult ones. The largest has a length of the shellof 455 mm. Its carapace shows an obtuse keel on the posterior part (fig. 8a). A youngerspécimen has a rather sharp and strong dorsal keel over the whole of the carapace (fig. 8è).A young spécimen of 206 mm. length from Bivak Island 1912 is also strongly keeled andNova Guinea XIII. Zoologie. 20 150 KELLY DE ROOY.
Nova Guinea : résultats de l'expédition scientifique néerlandaise à la Nouvelle-Guinée en 1903[-1920] . è. Fig. 8. Carettochelys insculpta Spécimen of 455 mm. length; b. younger spécimen. young spécimens of différent length and adult ones. The largest has a length of the shellof 455 mm. Its carapace shows an obtuse keel on the posterior part (fig. 8a). A youngerspécimen has a rather sharp and strong dorsal keel over the whole of the carapace (fig. 8è).A young spécimen of 206 mm. length from Bivak Island 1912 is also strongly keeled andNova Guinea XIII. Zoologie. 20 150 KELLY DE ROOY. REPTILES. has on its margin two or three obtuse points, rests of the juvénile serration. A still smallerone of 94 mm. (fig. gb) is very distinctly serrated, the oval neural plates are clearly visible ;both characteristics are more strongly marked in the youngest spécimen of 55 mm. length (fig. ga).The head is large and broad, the snout ends in a fieshy thick proboscis, which isbent downwards, the nostrils are situated superiorly. The eyes are large and latéral; neck
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