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Help me identify this tortoise, please

Edward Feb 02, 2004 12:34 AM

I've already posted this in the "What kind?" forum, but I just thought I may get others' opinions in this forum too.
Thanks for your help.

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Edward
Carpe diem

Replies (10)

Edward Feb 02, 2004 12:35 AM

Thanks

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Edward
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Edward Feb 02, 2004 12:36 AM

n/p

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Edward
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Edward Feb 02, 2004 12:38 AM

The color is a bit off in this one; it's more accurate in the first one.

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Edward
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scuter Feb 02, 2004 12:51 AM

from your picture of this animal with its keeled shell&serrated marginal it appears to be one of the Asian leaf or forest turtles.

Prehaps a Heosemys grandis. but not a tortoise.
i hope this helps.

tortoisehead Feb 02, 2004 01:01 AM

It's a keeled box turtle (Pyxidea Mouhotti.) The shell is deformed a bit it looks like to me, because the middle keel should be higher. However, the jagged rear end of the shell and the typical box turtle head are unmistakable as the keeled box.

MouhotiiFan Feb 09, 2004 06:42 PM

Yes, It is a Pyxidea (Cuora) mouhotii. It's apparently had a rough life. I have seen a few like this one.

Steve

tomt Feb 02, 2004 08:54 AM

As trtoise already said, it is a Cuora (Pyxidea) mouhotii, to be exact its the nominate subspecies mouhotii, a bit deformed, looks like it has been kept to dry...... Still, 100% mouhotii....

Edward Feb 02, 2004 01:57 PM

n/p
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Edward
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EJ Feb 03, 2004 03:12 PM

A friend seems to think that it looks like it is some form of Cuora searatta, or a mohouti hybrid?
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tomt Feb 04, 2004 04:58 AM

101% no serrata, I've seen about 35 specimens of serrata. Neither it is another hybrid, its just a malformed mouhotii (I have seen dozens like that, kept to dry and fed to many proteins)

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