. The annals and magazine of natural history : zoology, botany, and geology. ortoise are, according to Gadow [4], as follows :—The male is slightly smaller in size, has a long tail, andpossesses a concave plastron. The plastron of the female isflat. Another point of difference between the sexes that Inoticed was in the shape of the posterior end of the plastron,as viewed ventrally (see text-figures). Concerning the anatomy of the tortoise, no easily accessibledetailed account in English is known to me. I have usedBojanuss figures and explanations of Emys europcea [2].In Sedgwick^s recently pub
. The annals and magazine of natural history : zoology, botany, and geology. ortoise are, according to Gadow [4], as follows :—The male is slightly smaller in size, has a long tail, andpossesses a concave plastron. The plastron of the female isflat. Another point of difference between the sexes that Inoticed was in the shape of the posterior end of the plastron,as viewed ventrally (see text-figures). Concerning the anatomy of the tortoise, no easily accessibledetailed account in English is known to me. I have usedBojanuss figures and explanations of Emys europcea [2].In Sedgwick^s recently published Vertebrata ^^ [10] ofhis * Student^s Text-book of Zoology, howevej-^ a goodgeneral account of the anatomy of the Chelonia jg oiven. Hermaphroditism c&c. in Testudo gra3ca. 121 At first it does not appear easy to delineate the relation ofthe gonad and the kidney in Testudo. The latter organ(kidney) is very dorsal and posterior in position and needscareful dissection, being covered ventrally by a black pig-mented body. This is the epididymis, lying naturally on.
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