I recall and earlier post made by "justwandering" that stated tortoises with split scutes / extra scutes would be more valuable to him.
Correct me if I'm wrong but you feel that this abnormality is always caused by temperature and thus would give you a better chance of knowing the gender of the tortoise.
I do agree that scute abnormalities do happen as result of high temps. It would be hard to dismiss that irregular scute formation found effecting the same scutes has occur as evidenced when a parent demonstrating the abnormality has an offspring with the same scutes effected. Numerous cases of this happening can be found by just researching this.
So are you thinking the importance of the pure gene concept is worth the gamble that it is "always high temp" that leads to these split and extra scutes.....Interesting concept but not one I subscribe to.



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Richard -amazoa-

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