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(1899) 621; Werner, Zool. Jahrb. 13 (1900) 483; Siebenrock, Sitz. 
Ber. Wiss. Wien 111 (1902) 832, fig. 12; 112 (1903) 350; Zool. 
Jahrb. Suppl. 10 (1909) 607. 
Pelochelys cantori de RooiJ, Kept. Indo-Aust. Arch. 1 (1915) 331. 
Description of species . — “Costal plates eight pairs, the last 
well developed and forming a median suture; a single neural 
between the first pair of costals; plates coarsely pitted and ver- 
miculate. Dorsal skin of young tuberculate. Epiplastra small 
and widely separated ; entoplastron forming a right or an acute 
angle; plastral callosities largely developed. Head moderate; 
snout very short and broad; proboscis very short; interorbital 
space broader than the greatest diameter of the orbit ; mandible 
narrowest at the symphysis, olive above, uniform or spotted with 
darker; lips and throat of young olive, speckled with whitish; 
plastron whitish.” (Boulenger.) 
A living specimen in the Bureau of Science aquarium has the 
following measurements : 
Measurements of Pelochelys cantorii Gray. 
Length of carapace 
350 
Width of carapace 
315 
Height of carapace 
76 
Length of plastron 
295 
Width of plastron a 
290 
Total length, head extended 
630 
The following characters are evident in the living aquarium 
specimen: Carapace moderately flat, composed of a bony inner 
part surrounded by a wide, soft, cartilaginous rim, the part 
above the neck bending down strongly, more or less covered 
with fine sculpturing and rounded tubercles ; bony part sculptured 
and more or less pitted; soft part of carapace posteriorly with 
lines crisscrossed at nearly right angles ; on the sides these lines 
longitudinal and not crossing; a depressed area running length- 
wise of carapace medially; three inner toes of fore and hind 
legs with long, strong claws, the claw of inner toe largest; the 
two outer toes not extending beyond the edge of the strong web 
which extends along the leg; a small callosity at base of inner 
toes on both feet; a strong scalelike callosity across outer part 
of foreleg, three callosities in the web on outer side of foreleg; 
one large, elongate callosity in the web on posterior side of 
hind leg, a heavy widened scalelike callosity on heel; head very 
large, much widened in temporal region; proboscis short; lips 
very thick; eye small, with a dark line in front and behind 
pupil; tail very short behind anus. 
