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Selleri, P., Giorgi, T., Melidone, R., Di Girolamo, N., Rosapane, I., & Cocchia, N. (2011). Minimally invasive sex determination technique in juvenile marginated tortoises (testudo marginata). Proceedings of the Association of Reptile and Amphibian Veterinarians, 18, 148.
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| Resource type: Journal Article BibTeX citation key: Selleri2011 View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: Ernährung - nutrition, Schildkröten - turtles + tortoises, Testudinidae, Testudo marginata, Untersuchungsmethoden - examination method, Veterinärmedizin - veterinary medicine Creators: Cocchia, Di Girolamo, Giorgi, Melidone, Rosapane, Selleri Collection: Proceedings of the Association of Reptile and Amphibian Veterinarians |
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Testudinidae Twenty, five-month-old marginated tortoises (Testudo marginata), were scoped by inserting a rigid 2.7 mm diameter endoscope through the cloacal opening into the urinary bladder in order to determine the sex of the animal by visualizing the caudal coelomic cavity organs through the thin urinary bladder wall. Four randomly selected animals were also scoped through the prefemoral fossa (using the conventional endoscopic technique) and samples of the gonads were collected and examined histologically to confirm the sex determined by the minimally invasive technique. The results of the gonad biopsies matched the ones obtained with the minimally invasive technique. The aim of this study is to prove the validity of the minimally invasive sexing endoscopic technique in small chelonians. To the best of the authors’ knowledge this is the first study reporting this technique, which proves to be very useful in determining the sex in juvenile chelonians while other systems may be too invasive or unreliable.
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