Kyphosis and other Variations in Soft-shelled Turtles

by Hobart M. Smith

Kyphosis and other Variations in Soft-shelled Turtles

BY

HOBART M. SMITH

University of Kansas Publications
Museum of Natural History
Volume 1, No. 6, pp. 117-124
July 7, 1947
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE
1947
University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History
Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, Donald S. Farner,
Donald F. Hoffmeister
Volume 1, No. 6, pp. 117-124
July 7, 1947
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas
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1947
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Kyphosis and other Variations in Soft-shelled Turtles

By

HOBART M. SMITH

Kyphotic (hump-backed) soft-shelled turtles have been known for many years in Asia and America. Gressitt (Peking Natural History Bulletin, 2 (pt. 4): 413-415, figs. 1-5, 1937) has reviewed accounts of such turtles, and recorded the anomaly in Amyda sinensis (Wiegmann) and A. steindachneri (Siebenrock) of Asia and in unidentified species in the United States. Records of kyphosis in American species apparently are few.