Brown Roofed Turtle

The brown roofed turtle is a freshwater turtle of the family Geoemydidae, endemic to South Asia. The snout is short, obtuse and only slightly prominent, and the fore limbs have large transverse scales. The carapace is pale olive-brown, with a usually blackish keel along the back, and the plastral shields and the lower surface of the marginals are dark brown bordered with yellow. The straight-line carapace length is about 22 cm (Wikipedia, general species account).

Two subspecies are recognised. Unlike most turtles, which have temperature-dependent sex determination, brown roofed turtles have ZZ/ZW sex determination.