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43 Cards in this Set
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Land dweller, no webbed feet, feet round and stumpy |
Tortoise |
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Spend its time in both alnd and water, brackish swampy areas Little turtle |
Terrapin |
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Family of sea turtles |
Cheloniidae |
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Spends most of its life in water Have webbed feet Long feet form flipper, streamine body shape Torpor |
Turtles |
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Family if largest turtle |
Dermochelyidae |
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Largest living turtle |
Dermochelys coriacea |
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Family of snapping turtle |
Chelydridae |
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Allows turtle to tightly clamp plastron and carapace together |
Hinge |
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Carapace and platron are joined by |
Bony bridges |
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Entire bone shell is covered by |
Keratin shields or scutes |
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Develop firm shell in |
12 months |
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Carapace and plastron |
Exoskeleton |
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Internak bones |
Endoskeleton |
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Skull vertebrae ribs |
Axial skeleton |
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Limb bones and gurdle |
Appendicular skeleton |
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Vertebral formula |
C8 D10 S12 Cd20-30 |
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Turtles exchange gases though |
Cloaca Skin Throat |
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They use thermal gradient to |
Facilitate digestion Increase Ab production Increase distribution of antibiotics |
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Genrally acquired for optimal reproduction in captivity |
Hibernation |
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Tools used for feces must be disinfected with |
Quaternary ammonium compounds |
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Cooler temp |
Females |
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Warmer temo |
Males |
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Manual restraint |
Hand grab Grasping of shell Grasping of head Grasping of legs |
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Chemical restraint |
Ketamine Ethorphine Isoflurane |
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Sites of venipuncture |
Femoral veins Jugular Brachial Subcarapacial Heart Ocipital sinus |
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Smaller than 300g |
25-27 gauge 0.5 to 1ml syringe |
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Greater than 300 g |
22 gauge needle 3ml syringe |
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Over 5kg |
20 gauge |
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Shell disease of aquatic turtkes, scutes are pitted and may slough with purulent discharge |
Septicemic cutaneous ulcerative disease |
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Agent of SCUD |
citrobacter freundii |
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Treatment for SCUD |
Chloramphenicol Gentamicin drops Topical iodine |
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Occur frequent in turtles, marked swelling in tympanic membrane and caseous material present |
Otitis |
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Agent of otitis |
Proteus Pseudomonas Citrobacter Morganella morgani Enterobacter |
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Treatment of otitis |
Surgery to drain pus Iodine NSAID |
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Known cause of rhinitis and upper respiratory tract disease in chelonians |
Mycoplasmosis |
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Agent of mycoplasma |
M. agassizii M. testudineum |
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Treatment for mycoplasmosis |
Fluoroquinolones Clarithromycin Oxytet |
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Virus may be asspciated with hepatic necrosis in freshwater turtles |
Fibropapillomatosis |
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Cause epizootics of small circular papular skin leasions |
Gray patch disease |
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Treatment of fibropapillomatosis |
Tortoise- isolation, supportive care, 5% acyclovir Green sea turtle- surgical removal |
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Dna viruses capable of infecting invertebrates and poikilothermic vetebrates |
Iridoviruses |
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Large areas of dead shell, soft areas, foul smelling lesions |
Deep shell ulceration |
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Anorexia Domed shell Shell too small Abnormal scute growth |
Metabolic bone disease |
