Do you recognize this turtle? Looking very beautiful, Xiaobian was also conquered when he first saw it, one word is beautiful, two words are beautiful!
Towering dorsal carapace, towering third vertebral shield, small black spots on the dorsal carapace, yellow ventral carapace, black crown on the top of the head, yellow cheeks on both sides; black neck with fine yellow lines in the middle. It's all so fascinating.
This turtle, called the Indian ridgeback turtle, commonly known as the Indian sawback turtle, belongs to the genus Of high-backed turtles, which is characterized by towering back carapace. There are seven main species that are more common: the Indian ridgeback turtle, the red circle sawback turtle, the Smith ridgeback turtle, the red-crowned ridgeback turtle, the giant ridgeback turtle, the Assam ridgeback turtle, and the Burmese ridgeback turtle.
Among them, the Indian sawback turtle and the red circle sawback turtle are the two most popular in the market, and they are the two most beautiful in the genus of high-backed turtles.
As the Indian sawback turtle has always been classified as a SITES I conservation, the population has rebounded significantly and has been included in the proposal to downgrade to CITES II, which was passed in 2004.
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