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CHELONIA .—Brogniart. 



Genus Chelonia. — Characters. Shell large, sub-cordiform; sternum entire; 

 anterior extremities twice the length of posterior; bones of carpus and fingers, 

 as well as of tarsus and toes, flattened and united, in form of a fin or paddle. 



CHELONIA MYDAS.— Lmna^MS. 



Plate III. 



Characters. Head sub-oval; snout short and rounded; upper jaw slightly 

 emarginate in front; lower jaw covered with three corneous portions, cutting 

 margin deeply serrated, and furnished with a hook in front; shell sub-cordiform, 

 smooth, covered with thirteen vertebral and lateral plates, not imbricated; a single 

 nail to each extremity. 



SrNONYMES. La Tortue franche, Dutertre, Hist, des Antil., torn. ii. p. 227. 

 Green Turtle, Cat'eshy, Carolina, &c., vol. ii. p. 38, pi. xxxviii. 

 Green Turtle, Brown, Hist. Jam., p. 465. 

 La Tortue franche, Laciphle, Quad. Ovip., torn. i. p. 54, fig. \. 

 La Tortue a ecailles vertes, Lacepcde, Loc. Cit., p. 92. 

 Testudo mydas, Linnseus, Syst. Nat., torn. ii. p. 350. 

 Testudo mydas, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. Lin., tom. i. part iii. p. 1037. 

 Testudo mydas, Schoepff, Hist. Test., p. 73, tab. xvii. p. 2. 

 Testudo mydas, Latreille, Hist. Nat. Rept., tom. i. p. 22, tab. i. fig. 1. 

 Testudo mydas, Daudln, Hist. Nat. des Rept., tom. ii. p. 10, pi. xvi. 

 Testudo mydas, Shaiv, Gen. Zool., vol. iii. part i. p. SO, pi. xxii. 

 Chelonia mydas, Schweigger, Prod. Arch. Konigsb., tom. i. p. 412. 

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