Note 8 — On the dermal armour of Jacare and Caiman, with notes on the Specific and Generic Characters of recent Crocodilia. By T. H. Huxley, Esq., F.R.S., F.L.S., Prof. of Nat. History, Gov. School of Mines.
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The second and third cervical rows in Caiman palpebrosus and trigonatus also contain a median scute, and consequently an odd number of scutes. In Caiman trigonatus, the third to the ninth supra-caudal rows have each a median single scute.