Table 1 



Taxon 



Hematocrit 

 (percent) 



Hemoglobin 



Oxygen 

 capacity 

 (g/100 ml (ml/100 ml 

 blood) blood) 



Source 



Horton et al. 1972 

 Burggren et al. 1977 

 Gatten 1975 

 Goin & Jackson 1965 

 Veribiinskaya 1944 

 Kanungo 1961 

 Motelica et al. 1967 

 Palomeque et al . 1977 



Nair 1955 



Goin & Jackson 1965 



Thorson 1968 



Wintrobe 1933 



Gaumer & Goodnight 1957 



Atland & Thompson 1958 



Pavne & Burke 1964 



Goin & Jackson 1965 

 Horton et al. 1972 

 Pough 1976 

 Pough . unpublished 

 Gatten 1975 



Kinosternidae (3 species) 



Xinostemon subrubrum 

 Stemotherus minor 

 S. odoratus 



Mean 



23 



23 



9.9 



11.2 



10.6 



Dessauer 1970 



Goin & Jackson 1965 



Goin h Jackson 1965 



Pelomedusidae (1 species) 

 Pelomedusa subrufra 



8.3 



Wood & Johansen 1974 



Testudinidae (7 species) 



Gopherus polyphsmus 

 Malaaochersus tomieri 

 Testudo graeca 

 T. hermanni 



males 



females 



