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Testudinide (Land tortoises tributed)

the land tortoises; tributed in both hemispheres, but aba family of Chelonia, very widely diswidely dissent from Australia. The carapace is very convex; very convex; claws blunt; feet clubadapted for progression on land only; neck retractile . They are vegetable cies belong to the type genus Testudo. feeders, and the greater part of the spe- In some classifications the family includes the freshwater tortoises, now gendœ. The family appears in the Miocene erally made a separate family of Emydi- America. of Europe and the Eocene of North TESCHEN It is notable in history as the place in which was signed the treaty terminating the war of the Bavarian Succession, on May 13, 1799. Pop. about 25,000.