| ETI - Turtles of the World: Turtle anatomy (466 words) |
 | At the posterior edge of each axillary notch there may be an axillary scute, and at the front edge of each inguinal notch there may be an inguinal scute. |
| Inframarginals, a series of small scutes lying between the carapacial marginals and the sides of the adjacent plastral scutes, are present in the families Cheloniidae, Chelydridae, Dermatemydidae, and Platysternidae. |
| Turtles of the genera Pelusios, Emys, Emydoidea, Terrapene, Cuora, Cyclemys, Pyxidea, Notochelys, Pyxis, and Testudo have a transverse hinge, more or less developed on the plastron, and in most species of Kinosternon a pair of hinges borders the abdominals. |
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