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2006-06-26 12:29:20 · 2 answers · asked by lilpiggygirl45 1 in Pets Reptiles

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They have 68. BTW what do you need this for?

2006-06-26 16:05:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

It varies on the species...

skull: around 20 bones
Cervical vertabrae (neck): 8 bones
Dorsal vertabrae (trunk): 10 bones
Sacral: 2 bones
Caudal vertabrae (tail): 20-25

Capace (top shell): 50 bones
Plastron (bottom shell): 11 bones
Shoulder girdle: 2 pairs of 2 = 4 bones
Pelvic girdle: 2 pairs of 3 = 6

Front limb, the book gave no info, I assume, similar to mammalian:
Front limbs: 2 x 29 = 58 bones
Back limbs: 2 x 29 = 58 bones
* I did not count the mammalian limb bones, I counted mentally. It should be correct within 2 or 4.

Anyway, turtles have around 247 bones, not too far from mammals.

2006-06-27 01:13:11 · answer #2 · answered by wu_gwei21 5 · 0 0

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