Details

Africa
N/A

Yellow-spotted sideneck turtle
Podocnemis unifilis


Head and neck:

Body
Carapace- Greenish brown to dark grey; broadest at center; median keel present; 2nd and 3rd vertebrals as broad as long; 5th smallest; marginals flared posteriorly; rought with raised annuli.


Plastron- yellowish brown;rounded in front; anal scutes notched; intergular scute long and narrow, completely separates gulars and partially separates humerals.


Limbs and tail: brown to black; hindfoot with three large scales on posterior margin.


More Than 1 Foot But Less Than 3 Feet
Brown
Pet
Animalia
Reptile
Chordata
Reptilia
Testudines
Podocnemididae
Non-Native