BACKGROUND The tissue growth necessary to achieve a complete or partial restitution ad integrum as a result of injury to soft tissue and/or hard times in reptiles is variable and often needs long time in relation to the species, to the habitat and to their intrinsic physiological characteristics. The purpose of this work was to see if the tissue optimization (TO) treatment with radio electric a...

1883, the Osteologically Least-Known Testudo Species Massimo Delfino1,2,*, Francesco Chesi2, and Uwe Fritz3 1Paläontologisches Institut und Museum, Universität Zürich, Karl Schmid-Strasse 4, CH-8006 Zürich, Switzerland 2Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Firenze, Via G. La Pira 4, I-50121, Firenze, Italy 3Museum of Zoology (Museum für Tierkunde), Senckenberg Dresden, A. B. Meyer...

Aim Recent biogeographical studies have postulated a North African, Late Pleistocene, origin for some species of the Iberian Peninsula. However, a robust assessment of such range expansions requires high-resolution molecular tools to resolve overlapping biogeographical and cultural processes. Here we aim to determine whether the spur-thighed tortoise, Testudo graeca, arrived in southeastern Spa...

There is no mention in the available literature on the subject, in English or French, of naturally-occurring rabies in tortoises. Street virus, however, has been injected into brains of turtles and proved by passage into rabbit brain to have persisted for months. In the brains of Testudo mauritanica and Clemmys leprosa (a fresh-water species) it persisted for 302 and 150 days, respectively (Rem...

059.1 Conservation Biology of Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises: A Compilation Project of the IUCN/SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group A.G.J. Rhodin, P.C.H. Pritchard, P.P. van Dijk, R.A. Saumure, K.A. Buhlmann, J.B. Iverson, and R.A. Mittermeier, Eds. Chelonian Research Monographs (ISSN 1088-7105) No. 5, doi:10.3854/crm.5.059.hermanni.v1.2011 © 2011 by Chelonian Research Foundat...