Recognition
This poorly studied turtle has an oval, weakly keeled (juvenile) to smooth (adult) carapace (to 25.9 cm) with a slightly serrated posterior rim. The vertebrals are wider than long. The carapace is light olive-brown with a reticulate pattern of curved orange lines, often surrounding small ocelli, on the pleurals and vertebrals. A dark spot is present on vertebrals 1-3, and usually present on the 4th. Each marginal has a single, curved, orange bar and a dark-bordered ocellus at the lower, posterior corner of its upper surface. At least in males, melanism may develop with age. The ventral surfaces of the marginals have large dark-bordered ocelli at the seams, and the bridge is patterned with narrow, transverse dark lines. The hingeless plastron is cream to orange or light olive, usually with a large, dark, central figure formed by a series of elongated narrow lines that may spread laterally along the transverse seams. The central figure is usually continuous from the gulars to the anals. The plastral formula is abd > an > fem > pect > gul > hum. The skin is light olive to orangish brown; forelegs are striped with yellow or orange; and vertical yellow or orange stripes occur on the hind quarters. An oval, black-bordered, red to orange postorbital spot is well-separated from the orbit. The chin is medially striped, with lateral stripes shortened to ovals that are almost ocelli. The upper jaw is slightly notched, and the toes are webbed.
Males are smaller and less domed than females, and have long, thick tails with the vent beyond the carapacial rim, and slightly concave plastra. Mature males lack elongated foreclaws. Females have short tails with the vent beneath the carapacial marginals, and flat plastra.
Questa è una descrizione molto molto precisa...elenca i vari caratteri, se qualcuno fosse cosi gentile da tradurla!
e cmq il carapace di solito ha una serie di disegni composti da linee gialle che formano una sorta di retinatura...la tua non ha questi disegni! inoltre la macchia sul capo su tutte le foto che ho visto è arancione e non rossa intensa!