Malayan Snail-Eating Turtle

The Malayan Snail-Eating Turtle has a different body shape Large, often the adult size is similar to that of a tortoise. However, the Malay snail-eating turtle is completely carnivorous and is specialized in eating some molluscs, so it is not very easy to raise. After all, it is impossible to buy food in some seasons.

The Malayan snail-eating turtle is a black turtle that grows very slowly. The head is relatively round, with a black top; there is a "V"-shaped white stripe on the edge, which extends past the upper part of the eye frame to the neck, and the stripes gradually become thicker; the muzzle is blunt, and the eyes are surrounded by white eyeliner, as if wearing glasses; the nostrils There are four white vertical stripes, a yellow-white freckle from the front of the eye orbit, and a yellow-white diagonal stripe from the lower end of the freckle, which spreads under the eye orbit to the neck and gradually thickens; the center of the upper jaw is "A" shaped, and there are 2 white stripes in the center of the lower jaw. The thick stripes extend to the neck, which is black, with common stripes and vertical stripes of different thicknesses.

The carapace is black, with three obvious ridges in the middle; the edge of the marginal shield is yellow (obvious in larvae), and there are black patches at the nail bridge; the plastron Yellow, with large black spots on each scute; the middle and posterior edge of the abdomen is notched deeply. The hands and feet are black with yellowish white edges. The color is vertically striped, and the fingers and toes are webbed. The center of the plastron of both males and females is almost flat with no depression. When identifying, according to the shape of the tail, a turtle with a thick and long tail is a male, and vice versa is a female.

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