Amboina Box Turtle

The Amboina box turtle, or Southeast Asian box turtle, belongs to Asian box turtle widely distributed across Southeast Asia. The Amboina box turtle or Southeast Asian box turtle (Cuora amboinensis) belongs to Asian box turtle widely distributed across Southeast Asia. It is native to the Asian mainland from northeast India, through Bangladesh, Burma and Thailand, across Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Malaysia. These turtles have blackish-brown to olive-brown shells that are not as ornate as many other box turtles. (Wikipedia, general species account).

All have a blackish olive head with three yellow stripes on the side. They are relatively small turtles, ranging in length between 200-250mm depending on subspecies and sex. The male can be identified by the slightly concave shape to its plastron. There is no specific pattern to what the underbellies may look like, for either sex. The only true way of telling age is to guess by the texture of the shell, as growth rings form irregularly. (Wikipedia, general species account).