Captive Breeding of the Four-eyed Turtle(Sacalia quadriocellata)

作     者：HE Bin LIU Yuxiang SHI Haitao ZHANG Jie HU Maogui MA Yonggang FU Lirong HONG Meiling WANG Jichao Fong J.Jonathan Parham F.James 

作者机构：College of Life SciencesHainan Normal University Chengdu Institute of BiologyChinese Academy of Sciences Museum of Vertebrate ZoologyDepartment of Integrative BiologyUniversity of California at Berkeley Alabama Museum of Natural HistoryUniversity of Alabama 

出 版 物：《Asian Herpetological Research》 (亚洲两栖爬行动物研究（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2010年第1卷第2期

页      面：111-117页

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学科分类：0710[理学-生物学] 07[理学] 0713[理学-生态学] 

基　　金：supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(30910103916) the Key Project of Science and Technology Program of Hainan,China(06122) 

主　　题：four-eyed turtle Sacalia quadriocellata captive breeding hormone stress conservation 

摘      要：In 1998,a study on forty-five four-eyed turtles(Sacalia quadriocellata) was initiated to gather preliminary biological data of this species and to investigate the feasibility of its captive *** the following six years,no courtship behavior was found occurring in males and no oviposition in *** 2004 to 2007,two successful techniques were applied to initiate reproductive behavior:1) injecting exogenous reproductive hormones; and 2) reducing the stress of living in *** a result of the hormone treatments,courtship behavior and copulation were observed during September and October,***,no courtship displays were seen from the CK males,which were not treated with *** occurred between December and March,and the correlation was not significant between behavior of ovulation and food *** laid only one clutch of eggs each year,with 2.47 eggs(n=34,range=1–4) at average,and 84 eggs were totally obtained,of which 13 were damaged,52 were infertile and 19 *** the fertile eggs,nine were hatched with mean incubation period of 105.9 days(n=9,range=89–122 days) at temperature ranging from 24 to 27℃.