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Testudinide (Land tortoises a family)

the land tortoises; a family of Chelonia, very widely distributed in both hemispheres, but absent from Australia. The carapace is very convex; claws blunt; feet clubshaped, adapted for progression on land only; neck retractile. They are vegetable feeders, and the greater part of the species belong to the type genus Testudo. In some classifications the family includes the freshwater tortoises, now generally made a separate family of Emydigaged in armed hostility thereto; that I have de. The family appear appears in the Miocene counsel, or encouragement to persons neither sought, nor accepted, nor attempted to exercise the functions of any office whatever, under any authority or pretended authority in of Europe and the Eocene of North America.