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Body coloration and mechanisms of colour production in Archelosauria: the case of deirocheline turtles [PDF]

Royal Society Open Science, 2019
Animal body coloration is a complex trait resulting from the interplay of multiple mechanisms. While many studies address the functions of animal coloration, the mechanisms of colour production still remain unknown in most taxa.
Jindřich Brejcha, José Vicente Bataller, Zuzana Bosáková, Jan Geryk, Martina Havlíková, Karel Kleisner, Petr Maršík, Enrique Font   +7 more
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Free-Living Aquatic Turtles as Sentinels of Salmonella spp. for Water Bodies

Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2021
Reptile-associated human salmonellosis cases have increased recently in the United States. It is not uncommon to find healthy chelonians shedding Salmonella enterica. The rate and frequency of bacterial shedding are not fully understood, and most studies
Sonia M. Hernandez, Sonia M. Hernandez, John J. Maurer, Michael J. Yabsley, Michael J. Yabsley, Valerie E. Peters, Andrea Presotto, Maureen H. Murray, Maureen H. Murray, Maureen H. Murray, Shannon Curry, Shannon Curry, Susan Sanchez, Peter Gerner-Smidt, Kelley Hise, Joyce Huang, Joyce Huang, Kasey Johnson, Tiffany Kwan, Erin K. Lipp   +19 more
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Primeros registros de relación simbiótica entre la tortuga verde (Chelonia mydas) y peces de arrecife en el norte del Perú

South Sustainability, 2023
El presente estudio registró a seis especies de peces de arrecife alimentándose de organismos epibiontes localizados en el caparazón y extremidades en individuos de la tortuga verde (Chelonia mydas) a través del buceo con SCUBA frente a la costa norte ...
Diego Cuba, Adriana Zavala , Maurice Epstein   +2 more
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First distribution record of Elongated Tortoise Indotestudo elongata (Blyth, 1853) (Reptilia: Testudines: Testudinidae) from Bihar, India

Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2020
The Elongated Tortoise, Indotestudo elongata (Family Testudinidae) is one of the five land tortoises having distribution in India. For the first time, we report a new distributional record for this species from Valmiki Tiger Reserve region of Bihar.
Arif, Sourabh Verma, Ayesha Mohammad Maslehuddin, Uttam, Ambarish Kumar Mall, Gaurav Ojha, Hemkant Roy   +6 more
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An assessment of turtle communities in Bach Ma National Park, Vietnam

Nature Conservation Research: Заповедная наука, 2023
Most of the extraordinary biodiversity richness of South-East Asian countries is concentrated in the national parks and other Protected Areas, with species-rich turtle communities surviving mostly in these reserves where their natural habitats are better
Van T. Pham, Olivier Le Duc, Benjamin Leprince, Cedric Bordes, Charlotte Ducotterd, Vinh Q. Luu, Le T. An, Manh H. Nguyen, Van O. Lo, Van N. Ha, Quang B. Tran, Luca Luiselli   +11 more
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Ontogenetic Changes of the Aquatic Food Uptake Mode in the Danube Crested Newt (Triturus dobrogicus Kiritzescu 1903)

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021
The study of the feeding mechanisms in vertebrates requires an integrative approach since the feeding event consists of a chain of behaviors. In the present study we investigated the food uptake behavior in different ontogenetic stages in the Danube ...
Nikolay Natchev, Nikolay Natchev, Kristina Yordanova, Sebastian Topliceanu, Sebastian Topliceanu, Sebastian Topliceanu, Teodora Koynova, Dimitar Doichev, Dan Cogălniceanu, Dan Cogălniceanu   +9 more
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Problem Solving in Chelonia with Comments on Behavior and Methodological Challenges [PDF]

, 2022
This study presented, to a variety of Chelonia species, a one-solution puzzle box problem. Of the 15 turtles tested, 11 solved the task at least once. Because studies on problem solving in reptiles, specifically Chelonia, are relatively unprecedented, we
Walton, Mal
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Invasive fish species in Romanian freshwater. A review of over 100 years of occurrence reports [PDF]

NeoBiota
Effective management of invasive alien species requires location-specific strategies involving the regular update of distribution maps to identify spatial patterns, trends, and pathways of entry and the spread and hotspots of those invasions.
Ovidiu Drăgan, Laurentiu Rozylowicz, Dorel Ureche, Istvan Falka, Dan Cogălniceanu   +4 more
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A comparative study of floristic composition, structure and pole diversity in two ecosystems at the 50k CPO-09 oil field in the Orinoco region of Colombia

Colombia Forestal, 2014
A structure and composition study of poles in two wooded areas of Colombian Orinoquia totalling 10 465 hectares is presented. A 1: 10 000 scale map was made for mapping gallery forest and high dense forest from tierra firma, in order to implement a field
Miguel Andrés Cárdenas-Torres
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Chelonia mydas

, 2023
Chelonia mydas (Linnaeus, 1758) — Native. Testudo Mydas Linnaeus, 1758: 197. Syntypes (3): UUZM 19, 26, 231 (not NRM and not UUZM 20 as in Smith & Smith [1979: 269]), according to Wallin (2001: 126); additionally, Bauer et al. (2013: 312) designated an unnumbered syntype in the MZUB, and NRM 5000 and 6880–82 were also designated as possible syntypes ...
Figueroa, Alex, Low, Martyn E. Y., Lim, Kelvin K. P.   +2 more
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