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Sea Turtle Glossary

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Passive integrated transponder

Variations: PIT tag

A small inert microprocessor incased in glass which is injected into the shoulder muscle or flipper of sea turtles as a method of indentifying individuals. The PIT tag transmits a unique number to a hand held scanner when activated by the scanner. Although expensive, they are one of the more permanent methods to tag sea turtles and are rather successful.

See also: Rototag   Inconel tag   Titanium tag

WWW References:

• SEATURTLE.ORG Tagging Site
• SEATURTLE.ORG Tag Finder
• SEATURTLE.ORG Tagging Photos

Entered by: Lucy Hawkes
Modified by: Janice Blumenthal, Michael Coyne,
Entered: 2005-05-06 09:36:25
Last modified: 2005-07-31 16:05:21