Chinese name:Big-headed black turtle
Common name:Big-headed turtle
Big-headed Turtle
English name:Large-headed turtle
Latin name:Chinemys megalocephala
Turtle subfamily - Turtle genus
Geographic distribution:Only found in Jiangsu, Anhui, Hubei and Guangxi in China.
Habits: Live in streams or pools around hills and slopes.
Body size:The female is larger, about 25cm, and the male is slightly smaller.
Growth method:Oviparous, egg white, oval. The spawning period is from May to September every year, and 2-7 eggs are often laid. After 50-80 days of natural hatching, they will hatch into hatchlings.
Food habits:Mixed food
Morphological characteristics:
The carapace is brown and slightly black. Rectangular, with two side edges almost parallel; there are 3 longitudinal edges in the center; the shell is 18cm long and 13cm wide.
The head is very large, its width is almost 1/2 of the width of the plastron; the tip of the snout goes straight down to the edge of the beak, and the beak is relatively brittle and thick; the carapace is arched with three strong ridges; the scutes are almost smooth ; The cervical scute is small, narrow and long, with a slightly concave posterior edge; the first vertebral scute is wider anteriorly and narrower posteriorly, and the other vertebral scutes are almost the same width as the first 3 and costal scutes; the dorsal carapace margin is neat, and the third to eighth rosy margins are slightly The front edge of the plastron is flat or slightly concave, and the posterior edge is notched into an angle or an arc; the nail bridge is prominent, and the axillary shield is smaller than the crotch shield.
The fingers and toes are completely webbed. The tail is pointed and thin.
The back is black or dark brown, the ridge is black; the belly is black and brown. The color of the scutellum is light yellow or green, and the edge of the scutellum is light yellow or green., The hands and feet are olive yellow, there are worm-like lines on the side of the head, and there are yellow-green vertical lines from behind the eyes to the side of the neck.
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