I saw these fascinating turtles in a shop a few weeks back. They were basically the average looking turtle, only they had really long necks, maybe about the same length as their shell.

Does anyone know the name of the turtle i'm talking about?

Thanks.

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do you mean snake necked turtles?

let me find an image

ah here's one





[edit] how wicked does this look

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Yeah thats the one. Thought they'd have a more specialized name lol.
Thanks

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they do have more specialised names that one is an eastern long necked turtle apparantly..the other was just down as the northern snake necked turtle.

i'm a tort girl though so graham will be your best bet

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is it definately one of those? there are a lot of chinese softshells on the market.

these?

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If they had "really long" necks they are more likely to be snake necks than softies, the most common in the UK is the Indonesian Snake Neck Macrochelodina rugosa.

darn, i was gonna say snake neck

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Thanks, it was the northern snake neck i was looking for. I recognise that face which looks surprisingly similar to ET lol.

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The Indonesian Snake Neck and the Northern Snake Neck are both Macrochelodina rugosa, same animal, different common names.