Snake-eating Twin-hinged Tortoise Cuora flavomarginata

Snake-eating Twin-hinged Tortoise
Snake-eating Twin-hinged Tortoise
Chinese Yellow-striped Box Turtle
The Snake-eating Twin-hinged Tortoise lives in ponds and flooded rice fields in Central China and the Ryukyu Islands. It is also called the Yellow-striped Chinese Box Turtle, but it doesn't swim and is not a true turtle. It can live in shallow water and it eats frogs and juvenile snakes as well as insects, unlike most true tortoises which are vegetarian.
Yellow-striped Box Turtle
Yellow-striped Box Turtle
Yellow-striped Box Turtle
Like other Asian Box Turtles, it is a terrapin. It can also live on land.
Chinese Box Turtle
Snake-eating Twin-hinged Tortoise
Snake-eating Twin-hinged Tortoise
Juvenile Yellow-striped Chinese Box Turtles.
Chinese Box Turtle
Snake-eating Twin-hinged Tortoise
Snake-eating Twin-hinged Tortoise
The name "Twin-hinged" refers to hinges on front and back which can be closed to seal "carapace" and "plastron" together with head and limbs inside protected against predators. Considered a food delicacy, they are now an endangered species.