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Nomination of Comparison of United States presidential candidates, 2012 for deletion
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Turtle
Hi, Thomas.

Sea turtles have structures around their anuses that enable respiration in the water. They are gill-like structures. They appear to have evolved recently. So it's a backward step for them - they should just retain the gills they have as embryos/had as fish.

But no, I'm not enough of an expert to properly cite it.

Richard

Turtle
They definitely do NOT have gills. There is however a turtle in Australia called the Fitzroy River Turtle that gets oxygen via its cloaca (it's mentioned in the relevant Wikipedia article),

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitzroy_River_turtle

and referenced:

http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/1565924?searchUrl=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3Ffilter%3Diid%253A10.2307%252Fi270521%26Query%3Drespiration%26Search.x%3D0%26Search.y%3D0%26wc%3Don&Search=yes&uid=3739600&uid=2134&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21101254679557 "Rheodytes leukops is a bimodally respiring turtle that extracts oxygen from the water chiefly via two enlarged cloacal bursae that are lined with multi-branching papillae."

The guy who discovered this is a professor at the University of Queensland, Craig Franklin.

Brad — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bar fly high (talk • contribs) 08:13, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

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