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Fiji Islands. This wide distribution is accounted for by the fact that the species 

 readily enters salt water, and is not infrequently found out at sea. Of land-tortoises 

 and soft river-tortoises there are none ; but the southern side-necked tortoises are 



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represented by two generic types peculiar to the region, namely, Cheloclina and 

 Emydura, each of which is common to Australia and New Guinea, and includes 

 several species. Mention may also be made of the huge extinct horned tortoise 

 (Miolania), of Queensland, which is of special interest from a distributional point 



