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a. In spirits. Tangier. Skin tubercular, with a black-brown | 
horny wart in the centre of each tubercle. Back not 
crested. Tail compressed, with a continued fringe on 
edge. Grey-brown above, with a series of roundish white 
spots on each side; beneath whitish. Length 34 inches, 
tail 74 inches. The tail longer ; gill in a very rudiment- 
ary condition. From Mr. Fraser’s Collection. 
b. In spirits. Tangier. Tail shorter, the gill remaining in 
a contracted state on each side. From Mr. Fraser’s 
Collection. 
c,d. In spirits. Young. §. Europe? Presented by P. B. 
Webb, Esq. 
3. TRITON. 
Head rounded, convex; crown rather flat. Tongue large, oval, 
papillary, sides free, pointed in front. Palatine teeth numerous, 
in two separate longitudinal series, rather diverging behind the 
front, and nearly on a line with the internal nostrils. Max- 
illary teeth rather large. Parotids porous, a group of pores on 
the lores, and a line of pores on each side between the legs.— 
Skin soft, granular.— Tail compressed, almost the length of the 
body. — Toes elongate, slender, free or lobed, or imperfectly 
palmated. Plantar warts distinct——Ribs very short, slender. 
The lips of the old specimens become enlarged, dependent. 
Triton, sect. 1. Gray in Griffith's A. K. ix, 
Triton Bell, Brit. Rept. 119.; Fitz. S. R. 32.; Bonap. Amph. Eur. 
21., Fauna Ital. ii. 131. n. 16. 
Triton sp. Laur. Rept. 37.; Duméril, Z. A. 95.; Oppel. Rept. 254.; 
Cuvier, R. A. 11. 99.3; Gray, Ann. Phil. 1828, 215.; Tschudi, Batr. 
60. 95. (not Linn. nor Lamck.) 7 3 
Triturus Rafin. Annal. Nat. 78. 1815. 
Oiacurus Leuckart. 
Glossoliga Bonap. Fauna Ital. 1. 131. 
Molge sp. Merrem, Tent. 185. 1820. 
Larva: 
Ichthyosaurus Latr. Rept. (not Keenig.) 
Proteus, part. Laur. Rept. 
1. Triton Porrett. 
Pale whitish (in spirits, perhaps bleached), with irregular purplish 
brown spots. ‘Tail longer than the body and head, rather square ~ 
at the base, then compressed with a sharp upper and lower 
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