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Title: Aquatic life
Identifier: aquaticlife419181919baus (find matches)
Year: 1918-1919 (1910s)
Authors: Bausman, Joseph E
Subjects: Aquariums; Fish culture
Publisher: Philadelphia : J. E. Bausman
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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Observations on tne Chelonians of North America. V. DR. R. W. SHUFELDT, C. M. Z. S.
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Large male specimen of the Florida Terrapin, Chrysemys floridana, seen upon ventral view and much reduced. I We have in the South a very remark- able terrapin that, in so far as I am aware, appears to be confined in its range to the Peninsula of Florida and Southern Georgia. It belongs to the genus Chry- semys and is known as C. Floridona or the Florida terrapin. This species I had never before seen alive until a mag- nificent specimen was kindly sent me by Mr. R. H. Young,-of Haines City, Florida. Shortly after its arrival in ex- cellent condition, at my home in Wash- ington, I had the opportunity to examine some eight or ten other living specimens at the United States National Museum, which had been forwarded by a collector from Adel, Georgia. None of these lat- ter, however, was as large as the young specimen, this having a length of cara- pace of over fourteen inches. That in- dividual is now in the National Zoologi- cal Park at Washington, as is also the largest of the Adel specimens, the for- mer having been presented by me after I had secured a number of photographs of it. One of these is here reproduced in Figure I, taken on ventral view. All this part of the shell is pale yellow, and the

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