For Sale White Strip Philippine Box Turtle hatchlings

[jmeetze]

$250 each, $200 if picked up in Central NC (I'm in Chatham and Lee County)
Shipping costs would be actual costs from fedex.

Will trade for Florida locality specific Musk turtles.

One "found in the enclosure" hatchling available, additional eggs incubating now. Eating anything put in front of it so far. Parents pictured as well.

Philippine main island variety. This is one of the Cuora localities that is currently undergoing description as a new species or subspecies.

Easy to care for, personally, and will beg for food if they see someone. They need both water and land, with females spending more time on land than the males. Lay one or maybe two eggs per nest.

Some biologists believe that Philippine populations constitute an evolutionary significant unit - a subspecies - distinct from other C. a. amboinensis populations. Specimens in this population are smaller, less rounded and more domed than other nominate populations. Furthermore, coloration in Philippine C. amboinensis is quite different from that of adjacent populations, showing finer whitish head stripes compared to broad yellow stripes in C. a. amboinensis. The pupil in Philippine specimens has a completely different pattern - forming a broad black pattern vs. being finely shaped in C. a. amboinensis. The head is much wider in typical C. a. amboinensis than in Philippine specimens. The plastral pattern in C. a.amboinensis is highly variable, ranging from nearly entirely black to yellow with or without black spots, while showing clear separated spots arranged in a rather uniform pattern in Philippine specimens. Soft parts in Sulawesi C. a. amboinensis show colorful reticulations, while being uniformly greyish to cream-colored in Philippine specimens.

- https://www.cuora.org/cuora-amboinensis