Egg tortoise is a large class of turtles that is becoming more and more popular. Egg turtle is not the name of a kind of turtle, but involves two subfamilies and four genera of turtles. A common feature is that the carapace is oval and smooth, looking like a large egg from top to bottom.

Over time, friends who love them give them a friendly name: egg turtle, and add a word egg after the names of different species of turtles, such as: Sal Wen Dome, Mexican Dome, Red Face Egg, White Lip Egg, etc. Egg turtles are basically related to: Box Turtles, Musk Turtles, Musk Turtles and Kintors.

Body characteristics of egg turtles

General mud turtles are not large in size, usually between 4-7 (10-16CM) inches in length, and most of them have a hemispherical shell and a vertebral keel (carapace). central). And the big musk turtle

the origin of the name of the egg turtle