Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In Gray's classification, a suborder of tortoises whose necks bend sidewise; the pleurodirous tortoises: same as
Pleurodira . See cut underChelydidæ .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Plural form of
pleurodire .
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Could you give names, taxonomies & full descriptions of at least five pleurodires from at least three families?
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Could you give names, taxonomies & full descriptions of at least five pleurodires from at least three families?
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Could you give names, taxonomies & full descriptions of at least five pleurodires from at least three families?
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Could you give names, taxonomies & full descriptions of at least five pleurodires from at least three families?
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A deadline for a short manuscript dealing with the pleurodires of the Brazilian Crato Formation has come and gone, but there isn’t really a desperate rush on it and I’ll be ok.
Archive 2006-02-01 Darren Naish 2006
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