Historical Papers
Ogilby, J.B. 1890. Description of a new Australian tortoise.
Records of the Australian Museum 1:56-59.
MEASUREMENTS.
Inches. |
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Length
of carapace |
... |
... |
... |
10.00 |
Greatest
width at last margino-lateral plate |
... |
... |
... |
7.25 |
Depth
below middle of second vertebral plate |
... |
... |
... |
3.80 |
Length
of nuchal plate |
... |
... |
... |
0.75 |
Width
of same in front |
... |
... |
... |
0.58 |
Length
of outer edge of 1st marginal plate |
... |
... |
... |
1.15 |
" |
" |
2nd |
" |
1.35 |
" |
" |
3rd |
" |
1.15 |
" |
" |
4th |
" |
1.33 |
" |
" |
5th |
" |
1.05 |
" |
" |
6th |
" |
0.95 |
" |
" |
7th |
" |
1.10 |
" |
" |
8th |
" |
1.00 |
" |
" |
9th |
" |
1.05 |
" |
" |
10th |
" |
1.10 |
" |
" |
each
caudal plate |
" |
1.05 |
Length
of first vertebral plate along median line |
... |
... |
... |
2.25 |
Greatest
with of same in front, about* |
... |
... |
... |
2.85 |
Width
of same behind |
... |
... |
... |
1.20 |
Length
of second vertebral plate |
... |
... |
... |
2.25 |
Greatest
width of same |
... |
... |
... |
2.00 |
Length
of third vertebral plate |
... |
... |
... |
1.50 |
Greatest
width of same |
... |
... |
... |
1.90 |
Length
of third vertebral plate† |
... |
... |
... |
1.75 |
Greatest
width of same |
... |
... |
... |
1.40 |
Length
of fifth vertebral plate |
... |
... |
... |
1.65 |
Width
of same in front |
... |
... |
... |
0.55 |
Greatest
width of same behind |
... |
... |
... |
1.90 |
Length
of intragular plate |
... |
... |
... |
2.25 |
Greatest
width of same |
... |
... |
... |
1.25 |
Length
of interpectoral suture |
... |
... |
... |
1.55 |
Length
of outer edge of each gular plate |
... |
... |
... |
.1.20 |
" |
" |
humeral
plate |
... |
1.60 |
" |
" |
pectoral
plate |
... |
1.80 |
" |
" |
abdominal
plate |
... |
1.45 |
" |
" |
femoral
plate |
... |
2.00 |
" |
" |
anal
plate |
... |
1.35 |
Width
of plastron across end of posterior outer angles of humeral plates
|
... |
3.50 |
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Width
of plastron across posterior fifth of pectoral plates
|
... |
... |
3.70 |
|
Width
of plastron across middle of femoral plates |
... |
... |
3.70 |
|
Width
of plastron across tips of caudal plates |
... |
... |
1.40 |
|
Distance
between tip of caudal plate and nearest point of carapace
|
... |
1.10 |
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The description is taken from a single example --- of which the shields alone have been preserved --- in the collection of the Australian Museum, Sydney, collected in the year 1869 at Cape York, Q., by Mr. J. A. Thorpe.
* Owing to the fracture mentioned in a preceding note (p.57), it is impossible to give this measurement with perfect accuracy, but by measuring the length of the suture with the normal anterior margino-brachial, and then measuring the same distance along the fractured plates from the inner posterior angle of the margino-nuchal, the distance between the two points thus obtained should be the greatest width, or closely approximate thereto.
† In measuring the length of the fourth vertebral plate we have included the small posterior intercalated plate (see note p. 57), believing it is to be an accidental fracture from this rather than from the succeeding plate.
Unreferred Plates
Plate
VII
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