T E S T U D O .—Brongniart, Dumeril et Bihron. 



Genus Testudo. — Characters. Body protected by a horny covering; shell 

 (carapace) solid; sternum (plastron) solid and immovable; jaws vfithout teeth; 

 extremities short, thick, and clavate; toes short, closely joined, and covered by the 

 integuments as far as the nails; anterior extremities with five, posterior with four 

 short strong conical nails; head and extremities retractile within the shell. 



TESTUDO POLYPHEMUS.— Z)aMc?m. 



Plate I. 



Characters. Shell subround, entire, depressed, ecarinate; supra-caudal plate 

 single and incurvated below; sternum elongated, projecting beyond the shell in 

 front, and deeply emarginate behind; colour of the shell brown, tinged with 

 obscure yellow, clouded with darker brown; sternum yellow. 



Synontmes. Gopher, Bartrum, Travels in the Floridas, Carolinas, &c., p. 1S2. 

 Testudo polyphemus, Daiidin, Hisl. Nat. des Rept., torn. ii. p. 256. 

 La Tortue Gopher, Bosc, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat, torn. xxii. p. 269. 

 Testudo polyphemus, Say, Jour. Acad. Nat. Scien., vol. iv. p. 207. 

 Testudo Carolina, Leconte, Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., vol. iii. p. 97. 

 Testudo polyphemus, Harlan, Jour. Acad. Nat. Scien., vol. vi. p. 21. 

 Testudo depressa, Cuvicr, Reg. Anim., torn. ii. p. 10. 

 Testudo polyphemus, Gray, Synop. Rept., p. 11. 



Testudo polyphemus, Dumeril ct Bihron, Hist. Nat. des Rept., torn. ii. p. 102. 

 Gopher and Mungofa, Vulgo. 

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