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S P H A R G I S .—Merrem. 



Genus Sphargis. — Characters. Body covered with a coriaceous skin, tuber- 

 culated in the young, smooth in adult animals; extremities pinniform, without 

 nails. 



SPHARGIS COmACEA.—LlnncBus. 



Plate VI. 



Characters. Head large; jaws strong, superior having three deep triangular 

 notches, inferior hooked; body covered with a coriaceous skin, tuberculated in 

 the young, smooth in adult animals; extremities without nails. 



Synonymes. Testudo coriacea, Linnxus, Syst. Nat, torn. i. p. 350. 

 Testudo coriacea, Schneider, Schildk., p. 312. 

 Testudo coriacea, G7nelm, Syst. Nat. Lin., torn. i. part iii. p. 1036. 

 La Tortue Luth, Lacepcde, Quad. Ovip., torn. i. p. 111. 

 Testudo coriacea, Latreille, Hist. Rept, torn. i. p. 58. 

 Testudo coriacea, Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. iii. p. 77. 

 Testudo coriacea, Daiidin, Hist. Nat. dcs Rept., torn. ii. p. 62. 

 Spliargis mercurialis, Merrein, Versuch eines Syst. der Amphib., p. 19. 

 Dermochylis Atlantica, Lesueur, Reg. An., torn. ii. p. 14. 

 Dermatochylis porcata, /'Fao-^er, Natiirlicii. Syst. der Amphib., p. 133. 

 Sphargis coriacea, Dumeril et Bibron, Hist. Nat. des Rept., torn. ii. p. 560. 

 Sphargis coriacea, Storer, Boston Jour. Nat. Hist, vol. iii. p. 16. 

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