Many friends may not know much about Japanese tortoises. It is mainly distributed in Japan, and Japan has listed Japanese tortoises as its protected animals and prohibits exporting, so there are basically no Japanese tortoises for sale in the domestic market. . However, this does not affect our simple understanding of Japanese tortoises. Let's talk about it from several aspects.

I. Brief introduction

Chinese full name: Japanese tortoise

Latin name: Geoemyda japonica

English name: Okinawablack-breasted leaf turtle

Alias: Ryukyu leaf turtle, Ryukyu long-tailed mountain turtle, Ryukyu black-breasted leaf turtle

Kingdom: Animal Kingdom

Door: Chordate

Class: Reptiles

Order: Turtles

Family: Turtles

Genus: Earth Turtles

Species: Japanese tortoise

Distribution: Only distributed in the northern part of Okinawa main island, Kume Island and Tokashiki Island.

Second, Morphological Characteristics

Appearance: Japanese ground turtles have small heads and big eyes. The carapace is relatively flat, angular but not conspicuous. The color of the carapace is also relatively light, the color of the body is mostly brown, and the color of the head is slightly lighter than the body color.

Size: Japanese ground turtle is a small turtle, about 15~17cm in size.

Three, life Habits

Japanese tortoises mainly live in the mountain jungles, creeks and mountain rivers in Japan. It is usually in the water at night, basically without much sunlight. They like to live in forests with high humidity, so many tortoise shells are green.

If they don't go out, they like to hide next to dark, damp stones, and they like to live under leaves.

4. Feeding habits

The Japanese ground turtle is an omnivorous turtle, mainly eating insects, snails, tadpoles, frogs, or weeds and Fruit is food.

Their appetite changes with temperature. At 22℃~25℃, they can eat normally, but when the temperature is too low, that is, below 20℃, their appetite will not be so good.

5. Hibernation

Japanese ground turtles hibernate. When the temperature drops below 11 degrees, they enter a shallow hibernation. When the water temperature is lower than 6 degrees, it will enter a deep sleep. As the temperature rises, they end their hibernation, start foraging, and go outside.

Six, male and female Distinguishing

The male and female Japanese ground turtles are still very easy to distinguish, mainly by their appearance and cloaca spacing. The plastron of female Japanese tortoises is flat and the tail is shorter, and the cloaca is closer to the rear edge of the plastron, while the plastron of male Japanese tortoises is concave in the center, the tail is longer and thicker, and the cloaca is closer to the abdomen. The rear edge of the armor is far.

The above is a brief introduction to the Japanese tortoise. Although this tortoise is not seen in China, interested tortoise friends can also take a look. If there are other varieties you want to know about, you can continue to pay attention to this site~