Home's hingeback tortoise
Kinixys homeana

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Head and neck: yellow to brown; small to moderate; non-projecting snout; hooked upper jaw; prefrontals divided; large frontal may be subdivided.

Body
Carapace- dark brown with some yellowish spots; domed with flat dorsal surface; some with low keel; sloping sides; anterior margins flared, slightly reverted (going back); abrupt drop starting on anterior portion of 5th vertebral; 2nd to 5th vertebral broader than long; 5th flared and widest; posterior portion of carapace reverted (going back) to anterior part of 5th vertebral scute.

Plastron- dark brown; yellowish at seams; two to four small axillary scutes; a large inguinal which in contact with femoral.


Limbs and tail: yellowish to brown; anterior surface of forelimbs with a few scattered, large overlapping scales; heel with large spur-like scale.

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