321 

 6. Emydura schultzei Vogt. 



Emydura schultzei, Vogt, Sitz. her. Ges. naturf. Fr. N. 9 1911, p. 410. 



Carapace convex, posteriorly flat, with a distinct vertebral 

 keel on the posterior half of each vertebral shield; posterior 

 margin serrated, the two supracaudals emarginated. Nuchal 

 shield narrow; dorsal shields with concentric and radiating 

 figures. Plastron narrow, four times and a half as long as the 

 width of the bridge; intergular shield narrowed anteriorly, not 

 quite twice so long as broad; abdominals very narrow, the 

 abdominal suture one fourth of the pectoral suture; bridge 

 very narrow; axillary and inguinal shields present. Head 

 triangular, with small round warts on each side; two short 

 barbels on the chin; neck with conical, round warts. Tail longer 

 than the head. Fore limbs with five, hind limbs with four 

 claws; digits entirely webbed. 



Carapace dark brown; each shield with a dark spot near 

 the hind border, in the middle of dark, irregular streaks, which 

 are sometimes broken up into spots; plastron light brown; 

 soft parts olive-brown above, greenish-yellow beneath; a broad 

 dark streak on the head between the eyes, another on the 

 median line of the occiput and a dark spot on each side of 

 the latter. Length of shell 143 mm. (After Vogt, not seen by me). 



Habitat: New Guinea (river, west of the mouth of the Tami). 



7. Emydura novae-guineae (Meyer). 



Platemys novae-guineae, Meyer, Mon. Acad. Berl. 1874, p. 128. 



Emydura novae-guineae, Boulenger, Cat. Chel. 1889, p. 233. 



Emydura novae-guineae, Siebenrock, Zool. Jahr. Suppl. X 1909, p. 585. 



Carapace depressed, with a keel on the posterior part of 

 each vertebral shield, sometimes a distinct vertebral groove; 

 posterior margin serrated. Nuchal shield moderate, one time 

 and a third to two times as long as broad; vertebrals broad 

 in females, narrower in males; dorsal shields with vermicular 

 impressions in males, with concentric figures in females '). 

 Plastron narrow, rounded anteriorly, three times as long as 

 the width of the bridge; intergular shield very narrow, one 

 time and two thirds to three times and a half as long as broad. 



i) Dimorphismus bei Emydura novae-guineae (Meyer), Siebenrock, Zool. Anz. 

 XL 1912, p. 3015 Nelly de Rooy, Zool. Anz. XLII 1913, p. 2. 

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