Freshwater Turtle

Cayman Turtle

These turtle live at North American. Is the biggest in the world.They have a big head and a large and gross tail, their weight are 80 kilograms and of long 75 cm. First these turtles are carnivorous, but when grow they become in omnivorous , they eat fish, amphibians snake, crustaceans and carrion.

Loggerhead Turtle

Their head is the biggest than all other species,They are brown, gray and yellow, too they have scales broads, they have a shell oval, their long are 20 cm and they weight  1.5 kg. they live in South American, in areas with swamp and slow rivers. They feed of invertebrates as principally sails.




Jicotea elegant Turtle

They have a red-orange spot that begin in their eyes and they have a picture in their lower plastron .Their long are 30 cm. these turtles are brow in captivity and they are famous pets. the females have a claw forward that males don't have, they like the tropical climate, They are carnivorous, they eat live insects and fish.









Flatback Turtle

Yellow chest turtle, their long are 17 cm, their shell are brow or green olive and a long neck with thorns. They live in lakes of calm  water  surrounded by forests these turtles are carnivorous and insectivorous as worms, tadpoles; In winter they refugen in the bromeliads and when there flooding cross the rivers for extend their area.

Oriental Canaleta Turtle 

Their long are 17 cm. They prefer the little gaps with calm water with grass for their feed, they eat  insects, crustaceans, molluscs, fish, amphibians. They are gray or black, the young turtles  have red sopt  in the head and the legs, but disapper when grow, and the males have a longer tail. 

Video of freshwater turtles: Jicotea elegant turtle