Representative Types of Turtles | Vertebrates | Chordata | Zoology

In this article we will discuss about the representative types of turtles with the help of suitable diagrams. The term turtle usually includes the aquatic and semiaquatic forms, tortoise includes the land forms and terrapin is used for some edible freshwater species. The characteristic of chelonian organisation is the shortening and broadening of the body, together with the development of [...]