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Title: The reptile book; a comprehensive popularised work on the structure and habits of the turtles, tortoises, crocodilians, lizards and snakes which inhabit the United States and northern Mexico
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Ditmars, Raymond Lee, 1876-1942
Subjects: Reptiles -- North America
Publisher: New York, Doubleday, Page
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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on.—The species appears to inhabit those states in and adjacent to the lower Mississippi Valley. It has been taken at Bayou Lafourche, Bayou Teche and St. Martinsville,Louisiana; also near Pensacola, Florida. BAURS TERRAPIN Malacoclemmys pulcbara, (Baur)t The head markings of this species are the strongest charac-ters for identification. The original description states: Thewhole space between and behind the orbits is characterised bya continuous, yellow figure, which sends backward, on each side,behind each orbit, a strong process of the same colour. The carapace is pale olive, with yellow markings aboutthe margin; the plastron is yellow, with darker markings. Thespecies attains an average size for this genus. Distribution.—The exact range of the species is not known.The type specimens were taken on the Alabama River, nearMontgomery. Alabama. * Sc^ence. November 7, 1890. Vol. 16. t Described by G. Baur in the American Naturalist of 1893, p. 675. 46 THE REPTILE BOOK PLATE XVI . . ^
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TROOSTS TERRAPIN, Chrysemys troosli One of the larger terrapins sold in the markets under the general title of Sliders. Among the bigger species of Chrysemys, this is the least attractive in colouration

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