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Top Ten Most Expensive Tortoises

Top ten ranking of the most expensive tortoises in China: Yunnan closed-shelled tortoise, Galapagos tortoise, golden-headed closed-shelled tortoise, Baise closed-shelled tortoise, Angolocha tortoise, Pan's closed-shelled tortoise, Adapola tortoise, radiated tortoise, money tortoise, and Narrow-bridged egg tortoise.

Among them, Yunnan closed-shelled turtle is the endemic turtle species in China, which is a kind of mysterious closed-shelled turtle, and it is estimated to be the rarest closed-shelled turtle in China, the giant panda among the turtles, and the giant panda among the giant pandas.

No words can describe its rarity, so the value of the Yunnan closed-shelled turtle can not be measured in terms of money, the wild is estimated to have long been extinct, the number of domestic breeding is also less than 10, so it is a real turtle in the rare aristocrat.

Yunnan closed-shelled turtle:

Yunnan closed-shelled turtle (scientific name: Cuora yunnanensis), turtles, freshwater turtles, closed-shelled turtles, China's national second-class protected animals, the "IUCN Red List of Threatened Species," near-threatened species. This species is only known to be distributed in Kunming, Yunnan Province, China.

Yunnan Closed-shelled Turtle has a medium head, smooth skin on the back of the head, the upper jaw is not hooked and curved, the dorsal armor is low, with three dorsal ribs and strong spine ribs; the head is olive-colored, with a yellow line pattern on the side of the head, and yellow symmetrical markings on the pharynx and chin.

Dorsal brown-olive or cream-chestnut shell color, edge and ribs sometimes yellow-white, ventral brown or light yellow-olive, edge yellow-white, scale seams dark black or ventral yellow-olive. It is an omnivore, feeding on small fish, shrimp, earthworms, fruits, vegetables, etc., usually preferring to hide in the jumble of rocks in the weeds.