Freshwater Turtle

Turtles and turtles are legged four-legged animals belonging to the reptile. The animal nation called the Order is distinctive and easily recognizable in the presence of a 'house' or a hard and rigid shell.

This tortoise shell consists of two parts. The upper part that covers the back is called the carapace and the lower part of the abdomen is called the plastron. Then each part is composed of two layers. The outer layers are generally large and hard scales, and are arranged like tiles; while the inner layer of bone plates arranged tightly like a shell. Exceptions are in the group of labi-labi and the type of leatherback turtle, whose outer layer is scaly and replaced by a layer of skin on the outside of the bone shell.

In Indonesian, we recognize three groups of animals belonging to this nation, namely turtles, freshwater turtles, and tortoises. In English, it is distinguished between land tortoises and freshwater tortoises or terrapins.