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Hello recently i buy this turtle Trachemys dorbigyi
not suere about this withe marcks
thanks

pics

last pics

I saw the photos and was curious. Looks like something took the outer layer off of the shell. The outer layer is a Carotene material, same as human finger nails. Contains pigments/color.
The white is bare bone. Not good. That turtle looks real old, by the way.
jsc
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"As hard as I've tried, just can't NOT do this"
John Crickmer

Its not bone color really its yellow color like albino
i must use a polarizide filter the pic has to many " ligths"
Thanks for your opinion

If the lamina is still intact, then it is scar tissue. The color component has been destroyed. Quite possibly a burn.
Not genetic. Physical injury/damage of some sort.
jsc
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"As hard as I've tried, just can't NOT do this"
John Crickmer

I agree with jscrick. Either there is some underlying heath issue, or it's a healed/healing injury. Could be caused from fire, trauma, or an infection of some kind. Or it's possible the turtle has something like age induced pigment loss (simlar to the skin disorder that some people get as they get older). It's not a genetic mutation, though. I'm willing to bet a health issue of some kind, either in the past or on-going.

Katrina
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