scute in English
noun
1
a thickened horny or bony plate on a turtle's shell or on the back of a crocodile, stegosaurus, etc..
Our recapture data indicated that Texas tortoises accumulate 1 annulus/yr and the scute annuli technique is a useful indicator of age in this population.
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1. The common method of identifying an Aldabra tortoise is to look for the presence of the nuchal scute, which is generally present
2. The measurements were taken as follows: wing length, from the carpal joint to the tip of the longest primary; tarsus length, from the tibiotarsal joint to the distal undivided scute; upper mandible length, the chord length from the point where the Culmen enters the feathers of the head to the tip; bill depth, in the vertical plane level at the anterior edge of the nares.