Yellow Foot Tortoise For Sale

yellow foot tortoise for sale – yellow foot tortoise size

This designation is somewhat misleading as there are some that never grow beyond 14 inches (34 cm) as adults.  While there are adult yellow foot tortoise for sale Geochelone denticulata that are over 22 inches (55 cm)  and even  28 inches  (70 cm) in length,  these individuals  are fairly rare with most reaching only 16  – 20 inches (40 cm – 50 cm).

Difference between red foot tortoises for sale & yellow foot tortoises

While Red-foots may be more intensely colored, this is not a universal distinction; there are Yellow-foot tortoises that are very brightly patterned and comparatively drab Red-foots.  While there are numerous morphometric differences between these two species, by far the easiest method of telling Red foots and yellow foot tortoises apart is the differences in the scalation of their heads.

Yellow foot tortoise for sale have elongated prefrontal scales and a fragmented frontal scale.  Red-foots have shortened prefrontals and an intact frontal scale. The prefrontal and frontal scales are the scales at the tip of the nose.  In addition to this obvious difference, female Red-foot tortoises are more elongated, looking much like a loaf of bread while older male Red-foots tend to develop an hourglass shape.

The yellow-footed tortoise (Chelonoidis denticulatus), also known as the Brazilian giant tortoise, commonly referred to as the Brazilian giant turtle, or more commonly, the big turtle, is a species of tortoise in the family Testudinidae and is closely related to the red-footed tortoise (C. carbonarius). It is found in the Amazon Basin of South America. The species name has often been misspelled as denticulata, an error introduced in the 1980s when Chelonoidis was elevated to genus and mistakenly treated as feminine, an error recognized and fixed in 2017