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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.
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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).
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Similarly, gharial Gavialis gangeticus (E) and narrow-headed softshell turtle Chitra indica became locally extinct within the last century.
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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
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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
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Light weight, this narrow-headed, twisting-eyebrowed baronet of a chap — like his son before him!
The White Monkey 2004
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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
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Mishra picked up one blackened, narrow-headed skull and smashed it against the wall.
The Brothers' War Grubb, Jeff 1998
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Mishra picked up one blackened, narrow-headed skull and smashed it against the wall.
The Brothers' War Grubb, Jeff 1998
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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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