Melanism was completed by the age of two years (based on counting carapace
scute annuli) in all known subadult specimens, leaving an almost completely black animal.
Abbreviations: Abd, abdominal
scute; Ana, anal
scute; Epi, epiplastron bone; Fem, femoral
scute; Ent, entoplastron bone; Gul, gular
scute; Hum, humeral
scute; Hyo, hyoplastron bone; Hyp, hypoplastron bone; Xip, xiphiplastron bone.
Furthermore, the shallow concavity of the sulci outlining the femoral and anal
scutes in T .
The absence of three discontinuous keels on the carapace, well-developed growth rings, and a well-developed posterior notch in the cervical
scute confirms that the taxon from Boutersem does not belong to that form.
Only a few of the
scutes remained in place and the turtle had obviously been dead for several months or longer.
No significant correlations existed between
scute or claw Hg levels and those of internal tissues.
An affected tortoise was defined as having at least 1.0 m[m.sup.2] of flaking or chipping of at least one
scute while an unaffected tortoise had no flaking or chipping (Figure 2).
hutchisoni is emended as follows: Similar to Emydoidea blandingii (Holbrook) in having an elongated nuchal bone and cervical
scute impression, but differing in having the nuchal somewhat shorter and wider; cervical
scute area not raised; and cervical
scute impression wider dorsally and narrower ventrally than E.
For example, for an infection with heat, redness and pain, one can use antibiotic, Cold herbs such as Go[den Seal (Hydrastis canadensis),
Scute (Scutellaria baicalensis), of other Cold "heat-clearing" herbs.
The boatswain came into our
scute and told us in what case he was and that he could not long continue alive; whereupon Willem Barents spoke: "I guess with me too it will not last long." Yet we did not judge Willem Barents to be so sick, because we sat talking one with the other and spoke of many things, and Willem Barents studied the map that I had made during our voyage (and we had some discussion about it).
Once the animals are hog-tied, Rice and Percival draw blood and take a small protruding ridge, or
scute, from the tail for later analysis.
We estimated the ages of tortoises by counting number of
scute annuli (Germano 1988, Zug 1991, Germano and Bury 1998).
