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¹ Estación Biológica de Doñana, CSIC. Avda. María Luisa s/n, 41013, Sevilla, Spain;
² Clinical Chemistry Department, Hospital Universitario de Valme. Bellavista, 41014 Sevilla, Spain
³ Corresponding author (email: judit{at}ebd.csic.es)

ABSTRACT:   Reference intervals of hematologic and biochemical blood profiles were obtained from 56 male and 58 female Mediterranean pond turtles (Mauremys leprosa) captured from the wild in different periods of their annual cycle. Mean (or median in nonnormal distributions) values of leukocyte differential were 53.8% and 58.5% heterophils, 35.3% and 32.6% eosinophils, 6.3% and 5.8% lymphocytes, 4.3% and 2% monocytes, and 0% and 0% basophils in males and females, respectively. Biochemical values did not differ from other chelonians, but values were generally higher in females than in males.
  Key words:  Blood chemistry, blood profile, freshwater turtle, hematology, Mauremys leprosa, Mediterranean pond turtle.