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Title: Zoological Bulletin of the Division of Zoology of the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Surface, H.A.
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Contributing Library: Great Smoky Mountains
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ods, living sometimes in such places all the year aroundand hibernating only beneath leaf mold and fallen leaves. Thespecific term insculptus means engraved, and refers to the mark-ings, or lines and grooves, on the back. From these marks it hasalso been given the name of Sculptured Tortoise, and Rough BackTurtle. This species has the carapace ovate, keeled, margin flaring, serrateor toothed in rear. Upper jaw deeply notched and arched down-wards. Head decidedlv narrower below than above. Plates or cara-pace with concentric and radiating grooves and radiating black lines;reddish brown; plastron with a black blotch on each plate, posteriormargin deeply notched. Length 8 inches. The entire carapace hasa rough chiseled aspect, hence the specific name—insculptus. Thefleshy parts, with the exception of the top of the head and limbs, arebright brick-red. The number of marginal plates varies somewhat. Our specimenNo. 1536a has twenty-four marginal plates, and No. 9467^ hastwentv-seven. 159
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rifw *nf ^ « ■£ ^e ?howin? outlines of carapace, plastron and left side£-ou« SiieU* ^ith -Slde view of head (One-half nat. size.) Drawn by W. RWalton, from life, in Laboratory of State Zoologist, Harrisburg- Pa 160 Our^No. G593c has an extra plate between the third and fourth ver-tebral scutes on the left side. This plate occupies part of the spaceof the fourth vertebral and has shoved forward the left half of boththe second and third vetebral scutes. In the adults the male has a marked concavity in the plastron.In the female the plastron is convex or practically flat in half grownspecimens. The Wood Turtle is found in the northeastern United States andOntario, extending from Maine to Pennsylvania and westward toOhio. Even then it is very limited in its distribution. We have re-ceived speciments from Ulster county, N. Y., from Mr. A. A. North-rup, Browns Station; Warren county, N. J., from Paul S. Tooker,Phillipsburg, while from Pennsylvania, our specimens have beenmostly from t

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