3. CHELODINA. Pls 
3. CHELODINA. 
Chelodina, part., Fitzing. N. Class. Rept. p. 6 (1826); Dum. § Bibr. 
ii. p. 441 (1835). 
Hydraspis, part., Bell, Zool. Journ. iii. p. 511 (1828). 
Chelodina, Gray, Syn. Rept. p. 88 (1831), and Cat. Tort. p. 43 (1844), 
and Sh. Rept. i. p. 58 (1855) ; Strauch, Chelon. Stud. p. 48 (1862) ; 
Gray, Suppl. Cat. Sh. Rept. i. p. 71 (1870). 
Neural plates absent; nuchal shield present, marginal; plastron 
with moderately strong axillary, and feeble inguinal buttresses, the 
latter just reaching the fifth costal plate ; intergular shield large, 
and situated behind the gulars, between the humerals and the pec- 
_torals. Neck longer than the dorsal vertebral column. No parieto- 
Vig. 55. 
Skull of Chelodina oblonga. (From Gray, P. Z. 8. 1869.) 
squamosal arch ; jaws weak, without alveolar ridges. No dermal 
appendages on the chin. Both pair of limbs with four claws ; digits 
entirely webbed. 
Australia and New Guinea, 
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