Category: Science - Biology
Kyphosis and other Variations in Soft-shelled Turtles
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...