What are the species of crocodile turtles?

Abstract: crocodile tortoise is the oldest reptile, one of the largest freshwater turtles in the world, known as the king of freshwater animals, is divided into two species, commonly known as alligators and alligators. The alligator, also known as the true crocodile tortoise, is native to the southeastern United States of North America. Alligator, also known as crocodile tortoise, has four subspecies, namely North America, Florida, South America and Central America.

Crocodile tortoise is the oldest reptile, one of the world's largest freshwater turtles, known as the king of freshwater animals, is divided into two species, commonly known as alligators and alligators. The alligator, also known as the true crocodile tortoise, is native to the southeastern United States of North America. Alligator, also known as crocodile tortoise, has four subspecies, namely North America, Florida, South America and Central America.

Real crocodile tortoise

The real crocodile tortoise, also known as the giant crocodile tortoise, the crocodile turtle, and the crocodile bite tortoise, is only native to the Mississippi River Basin in North America and is one of the largest freshwater turtles in the world. True crocodile turtles maintain the characteristics of primitive turtles, mouth, back armour shield, red tongue are very strange, the mouth front upper jaw is hooked, like an eagle's mouth, extremely sharp, can easily bite off human fingers, is now on the verge of extinction.

North American crocodile turtle

North American crocodile turtles are the most common of the four subspecies of crocodile turtles, and most of the common crocodile turtles in the market. The neck is a protuberant sarcoma, the dorsal nail is slightly raised and the back has a serrated edge with a square round and dark color, and the shape of the dorsal nail is generally narrow in front and wide in the back. The width of the third vertebral shield does not exceed 1/3 of the overall width of the dorsal armour, which is narrower than that of the second costal shield. The length of the front page of the ventral nail does not exceed 40% of its dorsal armour. The head is short, the muzzle is slightly pointed, and there are usually black stripes on the upper and lower jaw. Generally, the toenail of the larva appears black or dark brown, and turns brown and grayish brown after adulthood. Abdominal nail usually shows black, red, orange or with red, orange spots. The larvae are bold and fearless, active, relatively docile and hardy.

Florida crocodile tortoise

Florida crocodile tortoise, also known as Buddha crocodile turtle, small crocodile turtle, crocodile turtle, flat back crocodile turtle, belongs to crocodile turtle family, alligator tortoise genus, alligator turtle species, Florida crocodile turtle subspecies; it is a very ferocious predator with many protruding spikes on its head and neck, which is the most developed of the four subspecies and becomes the identification mark of this subspecies at one stroke. Distributed in Florida and South Georgia.

South American crocodile turtle

The South American crocodile turtle as a whole looks very similar to the North American subspecies, and the Ecuadorian and Nicaraguan populations are also different because of their geographical distribution. Its nearly round toenail has a slight protuberance and flattens as it grows.

Chinese and American crocodile turtles

Chinese and American crocodile turtles are found in North and Central America, mainly in southern Mexico, from Belacruz in the central part to Guatemala to the Caribbean and Honduras. They are also divided into two groups: Honduras and Mexico. They are similar to Florida subspecies in appearance, especially in Honduras. The best difference between Chinese and American crocodile turtles and other species is that they have two long whiskers on the chin.