140 Philippine Journal of Science 1920 
(1899) 621; WERNER, Zool. Jahrb. 13 (1900) 483; SEBENROCK, Sitz. 
Ber. Wiss. Wien 111 (1902) 832, fig. 12; 112 (1903) 350; Zool. 
Jahrb. Suppl. 10 (1909) 607. 
Pelochelys cantori DE Roo1s, Rept. Indo-Aust. Arch. 1 (1915) 331. 
Description of species.—‘Costal plates eight pairs, the last 
well developed and forming a median suture; a single neural 
between the first pair of costals; plates coarsely pitted and ver- 
miculate. Dorsal skin of young tuberculate. Epiplastra small 
and widely separated; entoplastron forming a right or an acute 
angle; plastral callosities largely developed. Head moderate; 
snout very short and broad; proboscis very short; interorbital 
space broader than the greatest diameter of the orbit; mandible 
narrowest at the symphysis, olive above, uniform or spotted with 
darker; lips and throat of young olive, speckled with whitish; 
plastron whitish.” (Boulenger.) 
A living specimen in the Bureau of Science aquarium has the 
following measurements: 
Measurements of Pelochelys cantorii Gray. 
mm. 
Length of carapace : 350 
Width of carapace 315 
Height of carapace 76 
Length of plastron 295 
Width of plastron 290 
Total length, head extended 630 
The following characters are evident in the living aquarium 
specimen: Carapace moderately flat, composed of a bony inner 
part surrounded by a wide, soft, cartilaginous rim, the part 
above the neck bending down strongly, more or less covered 
with fine sculpturing and rounded tubercles; bony part sculptured 
and more or less pitted; soft part of carapace posteriorly with 
lines crisscrossed at nearly right angles; on the sides these lines 
longitudinal and not crossing; a depressed area running length- 
wise of carapace medially; three inner toes of fore and hind 
legs with long, strong claws, the claw of inner toe largest; the 
two outer toes not extending beyond the edge of the strong web 
which extends along the leg; a small callosity at base of inner 
toes on both feet; a strong scalelike callosity across outer part 
of foreleg, three callosities in the web on outer side of foreleg; 
one large, elongate callosity in the web on posterior side of 
hind leg, a heavy widened scalelike callosity on heel; head very 
large, much widened in temporal region; proboscis short; lips 
very thick; eye small, with a dark line in front and behind 
pupil; tail very short behind anus. 
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