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Being a tropical species of wide distril)ut ion in the eastern Pacific, it 

 is unnecessary to point out that it also occurs in Formosa. 



Fig. 400. — Eretmochelys imbricata. A x nat. size, suell from above. No. 28645, U.S.N.M. 



Suborder CHILOT^.o 



1826. Trionychoidea Fitzinger, Neue Class. Rept., p. 7. 



1832. Chilotx Wiegmaxx, Handb. Zool., p. 167. 



1835. Labiata Fitzinger, Ann.Wien Mus., I, p. 107. 



1837. Chiloti Burmeister, Handb. Naturg., p. 731. 



1880. Peltochelyidx Seeley, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, XXXVI, p. 412. 



1887. Diacostoidea Baur, Zool. Anz., 1887, p. 99. 



1889. Trionychia Zittel, Palseozool., Ill, p. 513. 



1894. Mecraspedota Vaillant, Ann. Sc. Nat. (7), Zool. XVI, Nos. 4-6, p — . 



This suborder consists of only one family, the soft-shelled turtles. 



a From the Greek ^e?/\os, lip. 

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