Crossword-Solution: PLASTRAL 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Ground color of plastron pale yellow, anterior half extensively marked with black along laminal seams; all plastral markings interconnected; undersurfaces of marginals on anterior half of shell having pale centers; undersurfaces of posterior marginals and posterior half of plastron solid black.

Plastron more or less evenly rounded in front, slightly indented on gular border; posterolateral free edge of plastron reflected slightly downward; posterior border of plastron having wide shallow anal notch; plastral laminae, in order of length--abdominal, anal, pectoral, gular, femoral, humeral; abdominal lamina longer than combined lengths of pectoral and humeral or humeral and gular.

Plastral pattern consisting pattern, all parts of which of separate brown smudges (at are interconnected.

Plastral pattern partly obliterated by pattern obliterated by melanism in old individuals melanism only in adult males.

Plastral length was measured from the posterior edge of the plastron to the anteriormost edge of the ventral surface; other measurements were maximal.