Haw Mouth Mud The appearance characteristics of the turtle
The eagle-billed mud turtle

The eagle-billed mud turtle is an ordinary water turtle. The species has an arched carapace and looks like an egg from above. The hawk-billed mud turtle has a larger head and a beak like a parrot. It has a very fierce character and its bite is very painful. Generally speaking, it is not suitable. It is more dangerous to feed directly with your hands.

The body of the Eagle-billed Mud Turtle is 16.5 centimeters long and oval in shape; there are three longitudinal spines on its back that will become hazy as it ages. The marginal shield at the tail of the carapace is not serrated and does not expand outward. The remaining parts of the plastron and the carapace meet each other by their own tenacity. The scutes of the armpits and groin are lacking, and the plastron does not have the throat and rib scutes; the tip and end of the plastron are triangular in shape, and are the same color as the armor bridge, both of which are yellow.

There is a black stripe in the center of the plastron of the larvae of the hawkbill mud turtle that expands outward along the joint line, and the huge head has a slightly longer The mouth, the upper jaw is hook-shaped and has a pair of sharp spines, below the front of the eye sockets. The lower jaw has a long and overhanging hook, the round or oval beak is extremely small, and it expands back to the eye socket, and the chin has a pair of tentacles. From the perspective of the structure of the new bone, the cheek bones do not touch the squamous bones, and the upper front edge of the eye socket does not belong to the orbit. The head is tan or gray with black spots, the throat is light yellow, and the neck has several rows of small tumors, which are gray.


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