softshell turtles breeding
- Thread starter mercury904
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i need to see the tail by flipping it over... but it seems like the bottom one is defitenately a female
What you're looking at in turtles is not tail length itself, but precloacal tail length. In a female the cloaca is right where the tail joins the body. In a male there is a thick section of tail between the body and the cloaca; the male's cloaca is usually about even with the edge of the carapace. This works for softshells and all other turtle species I am familiar with; I don't know about sea turtles, tortoises, or pleurodires.
