Mexican gopher tortoise
The appearance of the Mexican gopher tortoise is different from that of common tortoises Large, but the Mexican gopher tortoise is a complex tortoise species, with an adult carapace up to 45cm. It is a relatively complex species among gopher tortoises. It likes to live in caves and is relatively fragile and cautious.
The Mexican gopher tortoise is one of the North American gopher tortoise species and the largest one. Their adult body length can easily exceed 40cm. They They are only scattered in Mexico and rest in the Chihuahua Desert. The carapace is rounded, the hind legs are short and strong, the forelimbs are densely covered with scales and flat, making it easy to dig, and all toes are not webbed. The carapace is oval, brown, similar to horny, and the center of the scute is slightly yellow. The nail bridge is well developed and the axillary scute is single. The plastron is yellowish and brown along the edge of the scutes; the adult laryngeal scute extends far beyond the carapace. The head is small, the front is round, brown, slightly reddish, and the iris is yellow-green. The fore and hind feet are approximately the same size. The male's plastron is concave.
In the Mexican gopher tortoise’s native area, local residents use its carapace as a container. As the number of Mexican gopher tortoises shrinks, people gradually Aware of the conservation of this tortoise species, fewer and fewer people are currently hunting it as a tool, and the number of Mexican gopher tortoises is also slowly decreasing.
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