People interested in turtle registries.

Hello,

I am trying to find folks interested in founding a registration service for certifying rare captive bred chelonians. The registries would maintain estimations of the number and sex of adults in hobby collections as well as the number of hatchlings produced each year.

The first species I am personally attempting to begin a registry for is Malaclemys terrapin macrospilota--the ornate diamondback terrapin. If you would like to speak with me about this registry, or perhaps about maintaining a registry for additional species, please do not hesitate to email me.

Europeans have used studbooks/registries to help distribute information on species husbandry and achieve proper sex ratios within hobbyist collections with great success. I feel we can too.

Best,
AJ Dennis
adennis14@gmail.com
papaxaos@yahoo.com

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