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description. Some herpetologists appear to be in doubt about this animal. 

 Harlan supposes it to be the Emys reticulata, to which it bears no resemblance, 

 as may be seen by comparing the figures of the two animals; the shell of one is 

 gibbous, that of the other flattened; the one is strongly wrinkled or rugous, the 

 other is smooth, and the colour and marking are entirely unlike each other. 

 Dumeril and Bibron, although they describe it as a distinct species, place among 

 their synonymes the Emys reticularia of Say, which is none other than the Emys 

 reticulata of Daudin. Most of all, perhaps, it resembles the Emys hieroglyphica, 

 but the head is much larger — the shell is smooth and differently coloured — 

 the posterior extremities are less flattened, &c. 



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