Speaking of the opercula or covering to the gills of the mud inguana, he proceeds to say that 'The forms of these pennated coverings approach very near to what I have some time ago observed in the larva or aquatic state of our English lacerta, known by the name of eft, or newt; which serve them for coverings to their gills, and for fins to swim with while in this state; and which they lose, as well as the fins of their tails, when they change their state, and become land animals, as I have observed, by keeping them alive for some time myself:' Linnaeus, in his Systema Naturae, hints at what Mr. Ellis advances more than once.
"The-Natural-History-of-Selborne"
White, Gilbert
Gray King's Voyage 2 427. lacerta varia, Shaw.
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George Grey
8. Tiliqua whitei, Gray Annals of Natural History 2 288. Tiliqua tuberculata, Gray King's Voyage 2 429. lacerta scincoides.
"Journals Of Two Expeditions Of Discovery In North-West And Western Australia, Vol. 2 (of 2)"
George Grey