Malayan snail-eating turtle

The Malayan snail-eating turtle is classified as Vulnerable (VU), considered to be facing a high risk of extinction in the wild.

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The Malayan snail-eating turtle has big wide jaws that help it crush aquatic snails, its favorite food! It lives in marshes, ditches, and canals in the south of Vietnam. More

Malayan snail-eating turtle has a brown to chestnut upper shell (carapace) edged with a fine yellow line. The oval carapace is slightly domed and the larger scutes bear small ... More

The Malayan snail-eating turtle has also possibly been introduced to Sumatra and Java, Indonesia (2) (5). View a distribution map for this species at UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre. More

Also known as a Malayan snail-eating turtle, this small, brightly coloured turtle lives in slow-moving bodies of water such as ponds, canals, small streams, marshes and rice paddies. More

The Malayan snail-eating turtle occurs in northern Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, and southern Vietnam; it has possibly been introduced to Sumatra and Java. It's not on IUCN Red List. This turtle does poorly in captivity and should be strictly left in its natural habitat. More

Malayan snail-eating turtle occurs in northern Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, and southern Vietnam. This turtle is an inhabitant of slow-moving water bodies with soft-bottoms and aquatic vegetation. It has been taken from ponds, canals, small streams, marshes, and rice paddies. More

Common names

(Malayan) Snail-eating Turtle in English - English
Kura-kura Siput in Malay - bahasa Melayu
Malaiischer Schneckenfresser in German - Deutsch
malayan snail-eating turtle in English - English
Черепаха малайская улиткоед in Russian - русский язык
ニシクイガメ属 in Japanese - 日本語