Sex identification in Australian skinks (Egernia stokesii, E. hosmeri, E. striolata) using cloacoscopy

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F62157124%3A16170%2F23%3A43880581" target="_blank" >RIV/62157124:16170/23:43880581 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.agriculturejournals.cz/pdfs/vet/2023/06/04.pdf" target="_blank" >https://www.agriculturejournals.cz/pdfs/vet/2023/06/04.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.17221/3/2023-VETMED" target="_blank" >10.17221/3/2023-VETMED</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Sex identification in Australian skinks (Egernia stokesii, E. hosmeri, E. striolata) using cloacoscopy

Original language description

Thirteen adult healthy captive skinks, six Gidgee spiny-tailed skinks (Egernia stokesii), three Hosmer&apos;s spiny-tailed skinks (Egernia hosmeri) and four tree crevice-skinks (Egernia striolata), were submitted to the study. The weight of the animals ranged from 28 g to 146 g. All skinks were explored during their putative mating season, which is December. Lizards were restrained manually and positioned in ventral recumbence. Cloacoscopy was performed with the rigid endoscope, protecting channel, endocamera and recording system Telepack-Pal (Karl Storz Endoskope, Tuttlingen, Germany). While the endoscope was gently introduced into the cloaca and advanced into the coprodeum sterile saline was flushed into the cloaca through the protecting channel. The endoscope was then slowly withdrawn to allow visualization of the main structures of the urodeum and proctodeum. Male skinks are characterized by the presence of urethral papillae and only one horizontal septum which divides the chamber of the urodeum into two subchambers. Female skinks are characterised by the presence of two septa. The centraldorsal fold that divides the urodeum into two pouches in female skinks is absent in males. Cloacoscopy proved an effective method of sex identification and can be considered a valuable method for breeding and conservation in monomorphic skink lizards.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

40301 - Veterinary science

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Veterinární medicína

ISSN

0375-8427

e-ISSN

1805-9392

Volume of the periodical

68

Issue of the periodical within the volume

6

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

5

Pages from-to

253-257

UT code for WoS article

001019972500001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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