The Geographical Distribution of Animals, Volume 1 / With a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the Earth's surface

by Alfred Russel Wallace

The fifth order, Chelonia, consists of four families:—

57. Testudinidæ	Land and fresh-water Tortoises.
58. Chelydidæ	Fresh-water Turtles.
59. Trionychidæ	Soft Turtles.
60. Cheloniidæ	Sea Turtles.

AMPHIBIA.

In the Amphibia I follow the classification of Professor Mivart, as given for a large part of the order in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society for 1869. For the remainder I follow Dr. Strauch, Dr. Günther, and a MSS. arrangement kindly furnished me by Professor Mivart.

The class is first divided into three groups or orders, and then into families as follows:—

Order I.—PSEUDOPHIDIA.

Fam.
1. Cæciliadæ	Cæcilia.

Order II.—BATRACHIA URODELA.

2. Sirenidæ	Siren.
3. Proteidæ	Proteus.
4. Amphiumidæ	Amphiuma.
5. Menopomidæ	Giant Salamanders.
6. Salamandridæ	Salamanders and Newts.

Order III.—BATRACHIA ANOURA.