Red foot or cherry head?
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I believe cherry heads are red foots.
She is a cherry head red foot
It’s a northern redfoot.
I think it's a lettuce-necked redfoot ... a rare, and cute, variant.
Jamie
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You have a nicely colored northern type red-footed tortoise there. A young cherryhead possesses a dark plastron with heavy dark brown pigment along the scute borders. Also, cherryheads have fewer but larger colored front leg scales and a different scute formula on their heads.
The so called ‘cherryhead’ is a red-footed tortoise too but from a different locality in South America...notably SE Brazil. Many keepers are getting away from using the moniker cherryhead and using Brazilian red-foot tortoise instead for the US pet trade. Cherryhead is misleading and leads to confusion.
But then again, using the term Brazilian is also misleading as there are at least four distinct regional variants (or actually un-described subspecies) that occur in the vast country of Brazil. But since it is only the cherryhead form that has reached this country via the pet trade, it works.
The so called ‘cherryhead’ is a red-footed tortoise too but from a different locality in South America...notably SE Brazil. Many keepers are getting away from using the moniker cherryhead and using Brazilian red-foot tortoise instead for the US pet trade. Cherryhead is misleading and leads to confusion.
But then again, using the term Brazilian is also misleading as there are at least four distinct regional variants (or actually un-described subspecies) that occur in the vast country of Brazil. But since it is only the cherryhead form that has reached this country via the pet trade, it works.
Too funny! She got done eating right before I took the picture hehe
Carl is right - Cherryhead was a marketing ploy that was started when the "Brazilian" redfoot tortoises were first imported some 20+ years ago!
The 'dark / marbling' is virtually "right-out-of-the-egg" -
The 'dark / marbling' is virtually "right-out-of-the-egg" -
ALL LIES !!!I
It is true about the bulbous nose and Brazilians do come in varied colors - as do the other locales - [ only exception is the Colombian locale.. all yellow ] There are always exceptions and extremes.
You have a nice Northern.
You can probably tell which one of these juveniles is the Brazilian...
It is true about the bulbous nose and Brazilians do come in varied colors - as do the other locales - [ only exception is the Colombian locale.. all yellow ] There are always exceptions and extremes.
You have a nice Northern.
You can probably tell which one of these juveniles is the Brazilian...
You’ll notice this northern has the 2 large leg scales that most associate to be an identification of a Brazilian. Another load of codswallop that Terry learnt me.
ONLY good student's learn Craig @Anyfoot haha
How man pics from a vast regional locale do I need to show.. starting with this obvious Northern.
Larger / fewer leg scales... and 'elbow-spurs' ???????? ( raised from a hatchling )
How man pics from a vast regional locale do I need to show.. starting with this obvious Northern.
Larger / fewer leg scales... and 'elbow-spurs' ???????? ( raised from a hatchling )
There is a guide to the 'kinds' of redfoots at https://tortoiseforum.org/threads/races-or-types-of-red-footed-tortoises.41582/ or https://sites.google.com/site/torto...formation/chelonoidis/red-footed--cherry-head
Here is a rough range map to show you where the groups come from- https://bccf4d3d-a-62cb3a1a-s-sites...cz7uQzBoGMbYgnsLHtPUUvVK0_wQ==&attredirects=0
Here is a rough range map to show you where the groups come from- https://bccf4d3d-a-62cb3a1a-s-sites...cz7uQzBoGMbYgnsLHtPUUvVK0_wQ==&attredirects=0
KBear
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She's absolutely gorgeous regardless of the seller's "confusion". I do hope you've fallen for her, if not, let me know, happy to add her to my little tribe!
BTW - some sellers would charge extra for one that looks like her because of the "high-color" so if it makes you feel better, you still got something pretty special.
BTW - some sellers would charge extra for one that looks like her because of the "high-color" so if it makes you feel better, you still got something pretty special.
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The animal could /would have a slightly higher value and price because of the striking color saturation.
But selling one as something it is not is just wrong.
It will almost certainly become a very attractive adult. At any rate.
But selling one as something it is not is just wrong.
It will almost certainly become a very attractive adult. At any rate.
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They are.
As a long hair Chihuahua is a Chihuahua.
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