Money tortoise pictures

Abstract: the money tortoise is a kind of turtle family, the head is smooth and scaleless, the tympanic membrane is obvious and round, the cervical angle plate is narrow and long, the first piece of the vertebral angle plate is pentagonal, the fifth is fan-shaped, the remaining 3 are triangular, the rib angle plate is 4 on each side, the marginal angle plate is 11 on each side, and the back armour is brown, with three obvious black vertical lines, of which the middle one is the most obvious and longest, so it is also called Chuanzi back tortoise.

The money tortoise is a kind of turtle family, the head is smooth and scaleless, the tympanic membrane is obvious and round, the cervical angle plate is long and narrow, the first piece of the vertebral angle plate is pentagonal, the fifth is fan-shaped, the remaining 3 are triangular, each side of the rib angle plate is 4, the marginal angle plate is 11 on each side, and the dorsal armour is brown, with three obvious black vertical lines, of which the middle one is the most obvious and longest, so it is also known as Chuanzi back tortoise, abdominal nail black, its edge corner plate with yellow. The dorsal nail and the ventral nail are connected by ligaments on both sides, and the plate (ventral nail) is transected, and the ventral nail is also connected by transverse ligaments between the chest and the ventral horn plate, so it is also known as the broken plate turtle, with webbed fingers and toes, and a short and pointed tail. The hard skin around the edge of the toenail is kumquat yellow, so it is also called the red-edged turtle.

The female tortoise carapace is wide, the tail is thin and short, the base of the tail is thin, the anus is close to the posterior edge of the abdominal nail, and the two anal shields of the abdominal nail are shallower, usually larger than the male, the male tortoise carapace is narrower, the tail is thick and long, the base of the tail is thick, the anus is far from the posterior edge of the abdominal nail, and the two anal shields of the abdominal nail are deeper.

Each shield of the wild money tortoise shell has a clear, dense concentric ring, called the growth ring. Each ring represents a year, while the concentric ring of captive turtles is blurred and sparse, and the distance between each ring is larger.