Kyphosis and other Variations in Soft-shelled Turtles

Smith, Hobart M. (Hobart Muir) · 2013

Produced by Chris Curnow, Joseph Cooper, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. 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.…

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