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Title: Aquatic life
Identifier: aquaticlife51920baus (find matches)
Year: 1920 (1920s)
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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1 y ^ WSfr ObserA)ations on the CKelonians ! of North America. IX. I I I DR. R. W. 5HUFELDT, C. M. Z. 5. i I
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Southern Soft-shelled Turtle D^rsalView It is not a difficult matter to distinguish a Spiny Soft-shelled turtle from the Florida species, for the former has an olive instead of a brown head, on each side of which we may note, including the neck, a yellow, black-edged line running through the eye, and joining the one from the opposite side at the root of the nose. Then, on the anterior edge of the carapace in this species we find a con- spicuous row of little cone-shaped tu- bercles, which are entirely lacking in the other species. This Spiny Soft-shell rarely exceed 15 inches in length of carapace; and, like its congeners, it causes no end of annoy- ance to anglers in streams and ponds where it may occur in numbers, and for the reason that it will take the worm or minnow on the hook as quickly as any fish that ever lived—and if hooked, it will put up the stiffest kind of a fight to get away. Our Spiny Soft-shell is an abundant species in all the area inhabited by it; it even extends its excursions into the big canals in New York State, and by so doing finds its way into the Hudson River, where a few specimens are taken every season. Of all the North American species of these turtles, the "brown" is the small-

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