36 CLOSE TORTOISE. 



a very strongly marked elevated carina, projecting 

 almost into a tubercle on the back of each : this 

 carina is of a yellow or pale colour, resembling 

 that of the zones before mentioned. The mar- 

 ginal pieces are twenty-five in number, includ- 

 ing the uppermost, which is extremely smaH. 



CLOSE TORTOISE. 



Testudo Clausa. T. testa nigricante, maculis difformihus suhcon* 

 fertis Jlavis, carina dorsali obtusa, sterno bivalvi loricam occlu^ 

 dente. 



Tortoise with blackish shell, irregularly spotted with yellow, 

 with obtuse dorsal carina, and bivalve under-shell com- 

 pletely closing the upper. 



Testudo clausa. T. testa omit gibba, dorsi scutellis carinatis, 

 sterno bvcahi, loricam occludente. Schoepf. Hist, Testud, p. 32. 

 t. 7. 



Testudo Carolina. T. pedibus digitatiSj testa gibba, cauda nulla, 

 Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 352. Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel. p. 1041. 



Testudo clausa. T. disci scutellis carinatis^ sterno vix repando, 

 valvularum ope ad scutum apprimendo. Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel. 

 p. 1042. 



Dosen-Schildkroete. Block. Schrift. Berl. Nat. Fr. 7. p. 131, 

 t. 1. 



Land Tortoise from Carolina. Edw. pi. 205, 



The Close Tortoise obtains its name from the 

 unusual manner in which the under part of the 

 shell is applied to the upper ; being continued in 

 such a manner round the margin, that when the 

 animal withdraws its head and legs, it is enabled 

 accurately to close all parts of the shell entirely 



