Chelonia mydas

FIGURE 3.6 Rathke s glands in turtles and tortoises. Axillary (a) and inguinal (i) pores (gland openings) are shown in Chelonia mydas. (From Ehrenfeld and Ehrenfeld, 1973.)... 

Grassman, M. and Owens, D. (1987). Chemosensory imprinting in juvenile green sea turtles, Chelonia mydas. Animal Behaviour 35,929-931. 

Bjomdal, K. A., Nutrition and grazing behavior of the green turtle Chelonia mydas, Mar. Biol., 56, 147, 1980. 

Figure 6.17 This green sea turtle ( Chelonia mydas) is one of the species that has been hunted almost to extinction for its meat and its shell.

Agusa, T., Takagi, K., Iwata, H., Tanabe, S. Arsenic species and their accumulation features in green turtles (Chelonia mydas). Marine Poll. Bull. 57, 782-789 (2008)... 

The presence of small amounts of 3a,12 ,22-trihydroxy-5i8-cholestan-26-oic acid as taurine conjugate in Chelonia mydas was reported by Haslewood et al. [52]. This bile acid is the 7-deoxy derivative of 3 ,7a,12a,22-tetrahydroxy-5)8-cholestan-26-oic acid, the major bile acid of this turtle, and is most likely formed by bacterial 7 -dehydroxylation (Chapter 12). 

Box turtle, Terrapene Carolina, 510 Green turtle, Chelonia mydas, 510 Loggerhead turtle, Caretta caretta, 510, 630... 

Presti SM, Resendiz-Hidalgo A, SoUod AE, Seminoff JA (1999) Mercury concentration in the scutes of Black Sea turtles, Chelonia mydas agassizii, in the Gulf of California. Chelonian Conserv Biol 3(3) 531-533... 

Solomon, S. E., 1984, The characterisation and distribution of cells lining the axillary gland of the adult green turtle (Chelonia mydas L.),... 

Booth, J., and Peters, J. A., 1972, Behavioural studies on the green turtle (Chelonia mydas) in the sea, Anim. Behav., 20 808. 

Hendrickson, J. R., 1958, The green sea turtle, Chelonia mydas (Linn.) in Malaya and Sarawak, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 130 455. 

Ireland, L. C., 1979a, Homing behavior of immature green turtles, Chelonia mydas. Am. Zool., 19 952. 

Manton, M., Karr, A., and Ehrenfeld, D. W., 1972a, Chemoreception in the migratory sea turtle, Chelonia mydas, Biol. Bull., 143 184. 

Owens, D. W., 1976, The Endocrine Control of Reproduction and Growth in the Green Sea Turtle Chelonia mydas, Ph.D. Dissertation, U. of Arizona, Tuscon. 

Turtles, tortoises or terrapin (for American freshwater turtles) are reptiles with a shell used as a house . The logger head and green sea turtles are caught commercially for their meat. In Germany turtle is mostly eaten in soup or stew. The meat of the so-called soup turtle (Chelonia mydas) is faintly red to bright red, and is marketed canned. An imitation or mock turtle soup is prepared from edible parts of heads of calves and has no relation to turtles except for the name. 

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