TESTUDINIDJE 



224. Clemmys marmorata (Baird & Girard) 



Pacific Terrapin 



Plate 122 



Emys marmorata Baird & Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1852' 



p. 177 (type locality, Puget Sound). 

 Emys nigra Hallowell, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1854, p. 91 (type 

 locality, Posa Creek, Lower [ = SouthemJ California); Hal- 

 lowell, Rep. Pac. R. R. Surv., Vol. X, 1859, Pt. IV, p. 3, pi. I. 

 Actinemys marmorata Acassiz, Contr. Nat. Hist. U. S., Vol. I, 1857, p. 444, 

 Vol. n, pi. Ill, figs. 5-8; Girard, U. S. Explor. Exped., Herp., 

 1858, p. 465, pi. XXXII; Lord, Naturalist Vancouver Island, 

 Vol. II, 1866, pp. 100, 301. 

 Clemmys marmorata Strauch, Mem, Acad. Sci. St. Petersbourg, Ser. 7, 

 Vol. 5, No. 7, 1862, p. 108; BouLENGER, Cat. Chelonians Brit. 

 Mus., 1889, p. 110; Strauch, Mem. Acad. Sci. St. Petersb., Ser. 

 7, Vol. 38, No. 2, 1890, p. 72; Stejneger, N. Amer. Fauna, No. 7, 

 1893, p. 162; Van Denburgh, Occas. Papers Cal. -Acad. Sci., Vol. 

 V, 1897, p. 30; Mc Lain, Critical Notes, 1899, p. 2; Meek, Field 

 Columbian Mus., Zool. Ser., Vol. VII, No. I, 1906, p. 3; Grinnell 

 & Grinnell, Throop Inst. Bull., No. 35, 1907, p. 18; Siebenrock, 

 Zool. Jahrb., Suppl. 10, Heft 3, 1909, p. 484; Hurter, First Ann. 

 Rep. Laguna Marine Lab., I9i2,p. 67; Van Denburgh, Proc. Cal. 

 Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, Vol. 3, 1912, p. 155; Grinnell & Camp, Univ. 

 Cal. Publ. Zool., Vol. 17, No. 10, 1917, p. 199; Stejneger & Bar- 

 bour, Check List N. Amer. Amph. Rept., 1917, p. 114; Stephens, 

 Trans. San Diego Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. Ill, No. 4, 1921, p. 66; Van 

 Denburgh & Slevin, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, Vol. XI, 1921, 



P- 53- 

 Clemmys VVosnessenskyi Strauch, Mem. Acad. Sci. St. Petersb., Ser. 7, 



Vol. V, No. 7, 1862, p. 114, pi.—, (type locality, Sacramento 



River, California). 

 Geoclemys marmorata Grav, Suppl. Cat. Shield Rept. Brit. Mus., 1870, 



p. 27. 

 Chelopus marmoratus Cope, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. i, 1875, P- S2>\ 



True, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 24, 1883, p. 36; Townsend, 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. lo, 18S7, p. 237; Ditmars, Reptile Book, 



1907, p. 52. 



Descriftion. — Shell broad and low, broader posteriorly 

 than anteriorly, more nearly round in young than in adults. 



