Variation in Scutes and Plates in the Boxturtle, Terrapene carolina
- 1 July 1937
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in The American Naturalist
- Vol. 71 (735) , 421-426
- https://doi.org/10.1086/280727
Abstract
A description of 5 carapaces showing supernumerary scutes. The specimens range from one having a single extra costal shield to one with symmetrically arranged supernumerary scutes in vertebral, costal and marginal series. A brief account of the literature relating to such variations is given and the possible correlation between abnormalities in the scutellation and the arrangement and number of the bony plates is discussed.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: