Excerpt from Prodromus of the Zoology of Victoria, Vol. 2: Or Figures and Descriptions of the Living Species of All Classes of the Victorian Indigenous Animals
This eleventh Decade gives illustrations in the first plate, No. 101, of the only Victorian specimen known of the great Luth, or Leathery Turtle, the largest of the living Chelonians, and certainly identical with the Old World and American examples.
The second plate, 102, gives the first recognisable figure of one of the most extraordinary of Australian Lizards, the Rugged Stump-tail, or Shingle-back, Lizard; the short head-like tail, and very large, thick, rugged scales of which suggest two of the popular names given to it.
The next plate, 103, shows one of what I venture to call our "Worm-Snakes," the Typhlops nigrescens, which burrows in the light soils of the warm northern part of the colony, and is often found in ants' nests.
The fourth plate, 104, is of great interest, not only as giving the first accurate figure of the most famous of all Sharks, the Basking Shark, the largest of all known fishes (upwards of thirty feet long), but as representing the only recorded occurrence of the species south of the Equator.
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