The large series from Coalcoman contains juveniles and adults; these turtles formed the basis for the study of relative growth of plastral scutes in this species by Mosimann (1956).
Variation and relative growth in the plastral scutes of the turtle Kinosternon integrum LeConte.
The loss of dark color ventrally occurs first on the plastral area, then the hind limbs, forelimbs, posterior part of carapace and last on the neck and throat.
Some individuals of spinifer have seven plastral callosities (KU 2842) as does muticus, but the callosities on the preplastra and epiplastron are less frequent and less well-developed in large specimens of spinifer than in muticus.
The average plastral length of most hatchlings probably is 28.
Central America, has a narrower plastral bridge and only two barbels beneath the chin.
The relative length of the plastral bridge in these specimens compares favorable with the ratio (.
The lateral edges of the posterior plastral lobe are reflected downward, at least slightly, in all but one specimen (an adult, kyphotic female).
Relative height of shell (expressed as a percentage of width) and relative width of posterior plastral lobe (expressed as a percentage of plastral length) in two subspecies of Pseudemys scripta.
Plastral pattern partly obliterated by pattern obliterated by melanism in old individuals melanism only in adult males.
Plastral pattern consisting pattern, all parts of which of separate brown smudges (at are interconnected.
Annual increment in plastral length was expressed as a percentage of plastral length at the end of the previous growing season (Fig.
The external scutellation of the plastral hinge in adults also differs from that in juveniles.
In the Testudinidae the African Kinixys has a movable hinge on the posterior part of the carapace and Pyxis arachnoides of Madagascar has a short, hinged, anteriorplastral lobe.
The Relationship of Length of Abdominal Scute toPlastral Length, and of Plastral Length to Length of Carapace, in 103 Specimens of T.
The plastral fontanelles are closed in most specimens of the 90 millimeter (plastron length) class; the anteromedian fontanelle closes first.
It was necessary to express plastrallength as the sum of the lengths of forelobe and hind lobe.
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