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rather to regard it as a variety of the Testudo pennsylvanica, (Kinosternon 

 pennsylvanicum,) than as a distinct species. 



Daudin next describes this animal, and from the same authority, but more fully; 

 he places it among those Testudines where the anterior section of the sternum 

 alone is moveable. He says, however, that he "suspects" it is only a simple 

 variety; yet he describes it as a distinct species, in deference to the opinion of 

 Bosc and Beauvais. 



Daudin again reproduces the same animal as the Testudo glutinata, which is 

 synonymous with the Testudo pennsylvanica sterno immobile of Schoepf; but 

 still believing it to be a variety of the Testudo pennsylvanica, (Kinosternon 

 pennsylvanicum,) from which, however, the animal is not only specifically but 

 generically distinct. 



Say and many Naturalists have referred this animal to the genus Cistuda of 

 Fleming, with which its anatomical characters are entirely at variance; and 

 Dumeril and Bibron have lately arranged it under that of Staurotypus of Wagler, 

 but I see no good reason for removing it from that of Sternothsei-us of Bell. 



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