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Plastron large, strongly angulated laterally in the young, convex in 
the adult, truncate anteriorly, angularly notched posteriorly ; the 
width of the bridge exceeds the length of the posterior lobe; the 
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longest median suture is that between the abdominals, the shortest 
that between the gulars, which is never more than half that between 
