Yellowbelly mud turtle  (Pelusios castanoides)

Description

This medium-sized turtle has a long, elongated upper shell (carapace), which is yellowish, olive or black in East African and Madagascan populations, and dark with a marbled pattern of yellow and brown marks in the Seychelles subspecies. The lower shell (plastron) is yellow, as its common name suggests, with a dark border along the seams. The head is brown to olive-black, with a slightly protruding snout, and the legs and tail are yellow to brown. The male has a narrower shell than the female (particularly in the Seychelles chestnut-bellied mud turtle subspecies (P. c. intergularis)) and a longer, thicker tail (2).

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