Objective: To identify the commercial Chinese medicines turtle shell and tortoise plastron. Method: Morphological identification and differential thermal analysis (DTA). Result:2 kinds of counterfeit turtle shell and 3 kinds of counterfeit tortoise plastron were found, and their morphological and DTA iden...
i Many freshwater turtles -- often called terrapins -- are sexually dimorphic in lots of ways, making distinguishing between males and females straightforward. From species to species, the best measure of gender varies. But by investigating a turtle’s claws, tail and plastron, you can usually ...
There are several other turtle eimerians described with oocysts that have protrusions on their walls (see Table 4). Those of E. mitraria, described from Chrysemys picta marginata, are larger (15×10 vs. 11.7×9.1), and are truncated at one end which has from 3–4 protrusions, while ...
A Global Analysis of Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Distributions with Identification of Priority Conservation Areas. Chelonian Conservation and Biology, 8(2), pp.116- 149.Buhlmann, K.A., Akre, T.S.B., Iverson, J.B., Karapatakis, D., Mit- termeier, R.A., Georges, A., Rhodin, A....
lipid metabolism, and possibly vitellogenesis. Together, these findings have important implications for recovery programs, such as translocations, population augmentation, reproduction in captivity and the identification of ecologically important genes, opening new venues for conservation genomics in desert tort...