CLASS III. 



REPTILES. 



GENUS I. TORTOISE. 



Body, covered either with a shell or strong hide, 



divided by sutures. 

 Feet, four fin-like. 

 Tail, short. 



Testudo coriacea sive Mercu- 



xii. Rondel. 450? Gesner 



pise. 0,46 ? 

 Testudo coriacea. T. pedibus 



pinniformibus muticis, testa 

 . coriacea, cauda angulis sep- 



tem exaratis. Lin. syst. 350. 

 Testudo testa coriacea, per lon- 



gitudinem striata. Gm. Lin. 



1036. 



LeLuth. Dela Cepede. Hist. 1- Coriace- 

 des (Jvip. 111. tab. 3.' 



Shaw Gen. Zool. iii. 76. 



Tuberculated Tortoise. Pen- 

 nant in Ph. Tr. 1771- 272. 

 tab. 10. /. 4. (Young.) 



Turtle. Borlase Cornwall, 

 285. Plate 27- 



XHIS species is common to the Mediterra- 

 nean, and our southern seas, and is not, as far 

 as we know, discovered in any other. 



Two of a vast size were taken on the coast 

 of Cornzvall, in the mackrel nets, a little after 



