sexing turtles????

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Can someone please shed some light on how to identify the sex of a maquarie river turtle? i am not sure how old it is but it is approx 5cm across.DSC05051_1736.jpg
 
The way to usually sex turtles is if they have a long tail, and if the underside of the shell is concaved (for doing the bow-chica-wa-wow) then it's a boy.
 
Hi DreamKiller


Short-necked turtles are relatively easy to sex as females have a much shorter tail than their male counterparts. In most turtles, the cloaca of the male is situated further away from the anal scute of the plastron than in females. Also male EMM are normally considerably smaller than the female.

At 5cm SLC your little guy (I use generically) is to small to sex accurately and you still have a couple of years before you can get a definitive answer.


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