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- A superfamily of tortoises with the neck bending in a horizontal plane, and pelvis ankylosed to carapace and plastron. It includes the recent families Sternothæeridæ, Podocnemididæ, Chelydidæ, and several extinct ones. Chelodines is a synonym.
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