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  • An example is the striped narrow-headed softshell turtle (Chitra chitra, CR), which can grow to more than 120 centimeters in length and is the largest freshwater turtle species in the world.

    Biological diversity in Indo-Burma 2008

  • Mammals endemic to this ecoregion include the Ethiopian wolf and rodents including the giant climbing mouse or Nikolaus 'mouse (Megadendromus nikolausi), the giant mole-rat, Ethiopian narrow-headed rat (Stenocephalemys albocaudata), gray-tailed narrow-headed rat (Stenocephalemys griseicauda), and black-clawed brush-furred rat (Lophuromys melanonyx).

    Ethiopian montane moorlands 2008

  • Similarly, gharial Gavialis gangeticus (E) and narrow-headed softshell turtle Chitra indica became locally extinct within the last century.

    Sundarbans National Park, India 2008

  • Tall, narrow-headed, lean, and bony, they seemed to consider themselves as interchangeable, even though they were garbed very differently.

    Burning Tower Larry Niven 2005

  • Tall, narrow-headed, lean, and bony, they seemed to consider themselves as interchangeable, even though they were garbed very differently.

    Burning Tower Larry Niven 2005

  • Light weight, this narrow-headed, twisting-eyebrowed baronet of a chap — like his son before him!

    The White Monkey 2004

  • That narrow-headed chap, ‘Old Mont,’ peacocked about his ancestry; all the more reason for having no ancestry to peacock about.

    The White Monkey 2004

  • Mishra picked up one blackened, narrow-headed skull and smashed it against the wall.

    The Brothers' War Grubb, Jeff 1998

  • Mishra picked up one blackened, narrow-headed skull and smashed it against the wall.

    The Brothers' War Grubb, Jeff 1998

  • The lanky, narrow-headed fellow attentive at his side had a very different look about him, weather-beaten, sharp-eyed and drab in hard-wearing dark clothes, with a leather jerkin to bear the rubbing of a heavy pack.

    A Rare Benedictine Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1988

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