Malay Fruit Turtle
The Malay Fruit Turtle likes a moist natural environment. The water level that it can tolerate is not high. In the wilderness, it often lives on shoals rich in aquatic plants. Its main food is animals, and it usually does not eat meat.
Chinese name: Malay Fruit Turtle
Chinese Alias: Malayan Flat-shelled Turtle
English name: Malayan Flat-shelled Turtle
Two Laws:Notochely splatynota
Kingdom:Animal Kingdom
Phylum:Chordata
Subphylum:Subphylum Vertebrate
Class:Protozoa
Order: Turtles
Suborder: Turtles
Family:Freshwater Chelonidae
Species:Malay Fruit Turtle p>
Dispersion:The dispersion ranges from southern Thailand, through Vietnam, Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore, to Sumatra, Java and Borneo.
Living habits: This kind of turtle rests in shallow water with rich aquatic plants, such as swamps, wetlands and streams in the forest.
Food habits: It is a herbivore, mainly eating aquatic plants, but there have been records of 2 attacking an elephant trunk snake.
Growth habits: In addition to knowing that a 20.5cm female turtle laid three large, hard-shelled eggs measuring 56x27-28mm, there is nothing to know about its growth. We know very little about it.
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