Elseya novaeguinea aka pink bellied snapper is this a real snapper or is considered something else i noticed there head goes to the side instead of straight in ??????????
Elseya novaeguinea
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They call Elseyas "snappers", but they're not snappers as we know them. They are side-kneck turtles.
Very funny and lively critters.
Very funny and lively critters.
There ya goMiguel;2351329; said:
And no they are not snappers at all
, they are sideneck turtles and so from the infraorder Pleurodirus(hopping Im spelling rigth) and Chelids (the same familiy of matas, snake necks, Emyduras,etc). They actualy are quite far from snappers(wich are hidden neck turtles Cryptodires and as such much more closely related to mud turtles, tortoises, sea turtles, soft shell turtles,sliders,etc
) About 190 million years puts apart snapper and sideneck lineages
i was waiting for you two on this thats why i posted it and i was thinking it was a side neck but everyone sells them as snappers
i may be getting a few common snappers today some guy is sappose to bring them into my work
i may be getting a few common snappers today some guy is sappose to bring them into my work
coura;2351778; said:By the way since we are doing some turt talk...reptech how are your turts, the map and the cooters doing? And Miguel how is your female salvini doing?Any eggs yet?
None. She is doing fine, eating, swimming and frollicking around, but no eggs, yet....( perhaps it did not work, the coupling )
Dont say defeat yet MiguelMiguel;2351907; said:
What I saw was a VERY GOOD conection if you know what I mean Sometimes female turts mate and then a long time passes before they actualy conseive. Turtles are solitary animals in the wild they dont know when they are going to find a animal of the oposite sex. If they arent gravid female turts can virtualy mate at any time even out of the mating seazon, what happens in this case is that the male sperm gets stored in the oviduct wall untill the next bach of eggs is ready to be fertilized. That´s how sometimes turts lay fertile eggs without aparently having matted Oh and that same sperm can be stored for like 4 years, all fertile, it fertilizes bach after bach of eggs, of corse it starts losing its efect after the 2 year in most cases. This all means that you should incubate any egg she lays whatever its layed tomarow or in the next summer
Also is this your first time in turt breeding or you already have acomplished it with other species? Rigth now I have one egg incubatingIf it haches it would be my first with this species