Meanings of Testudinata in English

The North American Testudinata.

The Third Part exemplifies the bearing of Embryology upon these general questions, while it contains the fullest illustration of the embryonic growth of the Testudinata.

We see that the other two parts are devoted to the description and delineation of a single order of Reptilia,-theTestudinata, or "Turtles."

Tortoises (Testudinata, or Chelonians) belong to a very numerous order of reptiles, the usual form of which is too well known to require description.

The two first cases devoted to Testudinata (18, 19) contain the American, Indian, and African varieties of the land tortoise.