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ALLIGATOR .— O 



uvier. 



Genus Alligator. — Characters. The fourth tooth of the lower jaw on each 

 side largest, and received in a socket of the upper; posterior extremities rounded, 

 without crests or dentations; toes never more than semi-palmated. 



ALLIGATOR MISSISSIPPIENSIS. Daudin. 



Plate VIZ 



Characters. Nostrils separated from each other by a bony partition; fore- 

 head divided by a short, prominent, longitudinal carina; four large tubercles on 

 the neck, arranged in rows on each side of the vertebral line. 



Stnonymes. Alligator, Cateshy, Carolina, &c., vol. ii. p. G3, jil. Ixiii. 

 Alligator, Burtrum, Travels in Florida, &c., p. 126. 



Crocodile de la Louisiane, Lacoudreniire, Journ. de Phys., torn. xx. p. 333. 

 Crocodilus Mississippiensis, Daudin, Hist. Nat. des Rept., torn. ii. p. 412. 

 Crocodilus lucius, Cuvier, Ann. Mus., torn. x. p. 28, pi. i. fig. S, pi. ii. fig. 4. 

 Alligator lucius, Merrem, Versuch eines Syst. der Amphib., p. 34. 

 Crocodilus Cuvieri, Leach, Zool. Miscel., vol. i. p. 102. 

 Alligator lucius, Fitzinger, Neue Class, der Rept., p. 46. 

 Alligator INlississippiensis, Gray, Synops. Rept., p. 62. 

 Crocodilus lucius, Harlan, Med. and Phys. Res., p. 146. 

 Alligator lucius, Dumeril et Bibron, Hist. Nat. des Rept, torn. iii. p. 75. 

 Alligator, Vulgt. 



