The crown-backed turtle mainly eats plants, such as duckweed, water peanut, Sudan grass, etc., and can also be fed a small amount of fish, shrimp, snails, mussels, etc. After understanding what the crested turtle eats, let's introduce its morphological characteristics.

The head of the crested turtle is smaller Pointed, there is a stripe of uneven thickness on the top of the head, which is orange-red, the center of the top of the head has a light yellow-red pattern in the shape of one, and there are orange-red irregular patterns on both sides of the nostrils. The carapace is black, with white pinstripes on the edges, and the central ridge of the carapace is obvious. The plastron is pale yellow, with large spots on each scutellum, two white stripes on both sides of the limbs, gray-black limbs, and abundant webbing between the fingers and toes.