Identification please

[Dr. Kamil Malik]

can you please identify the small tortoise in the picture

 

[Yvonne G]

Welcome to the Forum, Dr. Malik!

It looks like a desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii), however if you're not in the western U.S. it's probably not. Can you give us more pictures of the animal? Straight down, front and underside.

May I ask why the leopard tortoise has the red/orange thing on it's back?

 

[tortdad]

That looks like one of those custom made shell cover @Cowboy_Ken shared a link to.

 

[Cowboy_Ken]

Welcome to the Forum, Dr. Malik!
May I ask why the leopard tortoise has the red/orange thing on it's back?

The orange/red thing on the back is from a 3-d printer. If my two brain cells are relaying the proper information between them, it seems to me it was felt to be needed due in part to exposed carapace bone.

 

[Yvonne G]

Oh, ok...thanks Ken. So then I'm guessing that Dr. Malik was using a picture off the web for his question. In this case, yes, it is a desert tortoise. The tortoise is not supposed to be bumpy as shown in the picture. He should be smooth. This is called pyramiding, and is caused by raising a baby tortoise in the house under very dry conditions.

 

[russian/sulcata/tortoise]

can you get a closer pic of it?

 

[Dr. Kamil Malik]

THANK YOU GUYS......FOR THE REPLIES, I WILL POST SOME MORE PICS ,,,,,,

 

[Dr. Kamil Malik]

Welcome to the Forum, Dr. Malik!

It looks like a desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii), however if you're not in the western U.S. it's probably not. Can you give us more pictures of the animal? Straight down, front and underside.

May I ask why the leopard tortoise has the red/orange thing on it's back?

sure, i am in Saudi Arabia, i will post more soon.

 

[Dr. Kamil Malik]

HEY GUYS, Today i am posting 4 pics of two tortoise, ventral and dorsal view each,
can you help in the identification .

 

[Gabriel Mattei]

The one on the top left looks like a marginated tortoise. The one on the bottom left has severe pyramiding and doesn't look healthy, i don't know the species of the bottom left tortoise.

 

[glaerey]

The one on the top left looks like a marginated tortoise. The one on the bottom left has severe pyramiding and doesn't look healthy, i don't know the species of the bottom left tortoise.

Certainly not marginated. It's a greek.
The second one looks russian to me.

 

[Yvonne G]

That's what I thought too, Gary. Top = Greek bottom = Russian

 

[leigti]

I'm not sure the Second one is a Russian. But I don't really know what it is.