#Indian flapshell turtle

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Clap for the Indian Flapshell Turtle!

The Indian flapshell turtle, also known as Lissemys punctata is a species of softshell turtle found throughout India, as well as Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Myanmar. It prefers quiet, stagnant freshwater and muddy bottoms, and is most common in slow moving river and streams, marshes, ponds, lakes, and reservoirs. However, this species is also able to tolerate salt water to some degree, and therefore may also be occasionally found in salt marshes and estuaries.

L. punctata gets its common name from the leathery flaps of skin attached to its underbelly, which covers the limbs when they are drawn in and helps individuals retain moisture during the dry season. Female Indian flapshells are larger than males, with a maximum shell length of 35 cm (13 in) and a weight of up to 800 g (28.2 oz), while males reach a maximum of only 23 cm (9 in) and 550 g (19.4 oz). There are three subspecies of the Indian flapshell turtle which may be distinguished by the pattern on their shells. The nominal species, L. p. punctata and L. p. vittata both have smooth, dark brown or olive green shells, while L. p. andersoni has bright yellow spots along the head and back. The underbellies of all subspecies are typically white or pale yellow.

During the wet season, Indian flapshell turtles spend most of their time foraging for food. Their drab colouring allows them to hide easily along muddy bottoms or dense vegetation. L. punctata are opportunistic omnivores, meaning they will eat just about anything that they can find. They are known to feed on a variety of items, including aquatic vegetation, fish, shrimp, snails, crustaceans, mollusks, small mammals and amphibians, and carrion. Adults are predated upon by crocodiles; in the dry season, they may also be opportunistically predated upon by vultures, crows, and wild pigs, as this is when adults are more likely to either burrow into the mud to wait for rain, or move overland in search of water.

Nesting for L. punctata typically occurs at the start of the wet season and continues from June to November. Adult males seek out females and court them by stroking her shell with his flippers. If she is receptive, the pair mirror each other and bob heads before copulation. Afterwards, the female digs a nest close to the edge of the water and lays anywhere from 2-16 eggs. She may lay up to three clutches over the course of the wet season. Incubation typically takes 200-300 days, although some clutches may take up to 400 days to hatch.

Indian flapshell eggs are highly resistant to flooding, and may survive up to 24 hours of submersion. After hatching, the young are completely independent; survival is therefore quite low. Those that make it to adulthood begin reproducing at 2-3 years old, and may live to be up to 20 years.

Conservation status: The IUCN currently lists the Indian flapshell turtle as Least Concern, although recent studies have recommended the species be upgraded to Vulnerable. They are primarily threatened by hunting for meat and medicinal value, as well as poaching for the pet trade. Secondary threats include habitat loss or degredation and road moralities.

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Mountain sages

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teenage regular ninja turtle

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The Indian flapshell turtle (Lissemys punctata).

Conservation Status: VULNERABLE.

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#2903 - Lissemys punctata - Indian Flapshell Turtle

Happily paddling around one of the 600-year-old artificial pools at Hampi.

A common and widespread freshwater turtle in South Asia, mistakenly placed on the CITES Appendix I in 1975, but taken off the endangered species list again later when they realised that that status only applied to one subspecies.

Found in lakes, ponds, rivers, drainage ditches, and even desert ponds. In summer, when some water bodies dry out, they crawl to another or burrow into the sand or mud at the bottom of the pond. Generally omnivorous.

Courtship begins with the male stroking the female's carapace with his neck and limbs extended. If receptive, she'll face him and they'll bob their heads vertically three or four times. Near the end of mating, the male releases his grip and rotates to face the opposite direction from her, and may be dragged around by the female for up to quarter of an hour.

A protected species, but widely poached for supposed aphrosdiac qualities used as an excuse to drive up the price.

Introduced to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Fossils are known from Miocene deposits in Nepal.

Hampi, Karnataka, India.

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Meet the Indian flapshell turtle (Lissemys punctata)! Native to the Indian subregion, this pig-nosed critter lives in a variety of habitats, including brackish lagoons and rice fields. It tends to hang out near shallow waters where it can bury itself beneath mud or bask in the Sun while atop floating vegetation. As an omnivore, its diet is wide-ranging and includes frogs, worms, carrion, fish, and aquatic plants.

Photo: Somu Mukho, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist

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Indian Flapshell Turtle (Lissemys punctata), family Trionychidae, Bhilwara, India

photograph by M. P. Vaishnav

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Alright I said Id be posting seperate images of the turtles for my itterations. One per the next few days. I figured Id start with SWwL Donnie

Name: Donatello Hamato

Gender: Male (questioning)

Age: 15

Speciea: Indian Flapshell turtle

Weapon: Bo

Donnie is the oldest of him and his siblings. However this does not make him the leader. In fact the SWwL siblings dont have a deffiniftive leader. If one of them has a plan they use that. Other than that Donnie loves technology and other sciences. He also is a big old videogame lover. His heaohones visor and gloves he made hinself with lots of trial and error because he was tired of dragging around a lot of tech stuff that weighed him down.

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just realized i havent talked about Eukarya at all lol, so here's some bare minimun introductions:

Leonardo

thinks he's the leader (he isn't

representation of the plantae kingdom

burmese peacock softshell turtle

he/him

Donatello

the actual leader

representation of the protista kingdom

indian flapshell turtle

they/them but is okay with he/him

Raphael

he has no idea what's going on someone help him before he burns everything to nothing

representation of the animalia kingdom

fucking green turtle

he/she

Michelangelo

he's just a fun guy

representation of the fungi kingdom

hawksbill sea turtle

what the fuck are pronouns

Splinter

A very caring and loving father :) /s

rat(?)

he/him

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Dub 'n' Bass

Dub, a laid-back sloth bear, and Bass, a daring Indian flapshell turtle, accidentally get trapped in a music video game, and they have to defeat the game's final boss, the one responsible for trapping them in the first place, to get back into the real world. With the titular duo being based on the constellations Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, the aesthetics of the video game world take inspiration from the music of the Grateful Dead.

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Dub 'n' Bass

Dub, a laid-back sloth bear, and Bass, a daring Indian flapshell turtle, accidentally get trapped in a music video game, and they have to defeat the game's final boss, the one responsible for trapping them in the first place, to get back into the real world. With the titular duo being based on the constellations Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, the aesthetics of the video game world take inspiration from the music of the Grateful Dead.

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Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia. Volume 6: Reptiles. Written by Bernard Grzimek. 1984. Illustration by Helmut Diller.

1.) Indian flapshell turtle (Lissemys punctata)

2.) Marsh terrapin (Pelomedusa subrufa)

3.) Pan terrapin (Pelusios subniger)

4.) Yellow-spotted river turtle (Podocnemis unifilis)

5.) Spiny softshell turtle (Apalone spinifera)

6.) Pig-nosed turtle (Carettochelys insculpta)

7.) Hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata)

8.) Leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea)

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Introducing........

A fanmade TMNT Iteration created by yours truly!! Inspired by Rise and TMNT 2012.

ALSO feel free to drop into the ask box ANY questions u have pls I love interacting with yall!

also I would love you forever if u reblogged this so it reaches more people pls pls pls

Origins:

The Hamato Clan had broken into the Foot Clan headquarters in order to steal the Dark Armor before Oroku Saki could inherit it. But, Hamato Yoshi underestimated the armor's power, and got mortally wounded while trying to obtain it. He would've died if it wasn't for the mysterious purple vines that wrapped him up before he blacked out. Three days later, Yoshi woke up in a sewer, all healed up (though, with some strange new physical features), and accompanied by some strange looking turtle eggs, as well as a note taped to the basket they came in. Over the next 3 years, the eggs hatched one by one (well, except Leo and Donnie, those two hatched around the same time), and over the next 16 years, Splinter raised the turtles, and he hopes that one day, he'll finally get to thank the person that saved his life and gave him his children. Meanwhile, the turtles' gain powers from both their mutation and their Hamato ancestry, and end up digging up secrets of the past that should've stayed buried.

Meet the Cast!

Leona is not what you'd think of when the image of a leader comes to your mind. She's slow to adapt to new surroundings, a bit arrogant, looks to the past way too often and, to quote her older brother, "Her anxiety has anxiety!" But, despite all her flaws, Leo has been able to lead her team through unfathomable challenges, way more naturally than her precedent, Raph. She works hard to live up to her family's expectations (which, despite what Leo's anxiety tells her, aren't actually that high. Basically just "don't die.") Leo also loves anime and is in many fandoms; she has actually made her own cosplays and has gone to the surface for conventions on the surface. She is 15, a hawksbill sea turtle and her mystic power is hydrokinesis (water).

Donatello honestly could not care less. They spend most of their time in their lab, creating who knows what. But whenever Splinter or one of his siblings go scrounging around in the sewer, he'll definitely come with. They really don't like interacting with people outside of their family, especially humans, after a traumatic event when they were eight. Needless to say, Donnie made plans to create his battleshell the second that he was all healed up. But, despite that, Donnie is surprisingly close with April. Those two are basically inseparable. Actually, they're pretty close with all their family, even though they act like they hate everyone, but that's just typical sibling stuff. Donnie's 15, an indian flapshell turtle, and their mystic power is aerokinesis (wind).

Raphael would rather die than admit that he's scared. As the oldest, he's always been a role models for his younger siblings, even though, he wasn't very good at leading, well, anything. But, as the strong big brother, he always felt the need to bottle up all his feelings for the good of the team. It took Raph a long time to learn that Leo could handle the weight of leadership, much better than Raph did actually. He is extremely overprotective of his siblings and sometimes that equals holes in the walls. He does have anger issues which he takes out on the objects surrounding him. It's one of the reasons why nothing in his room is completely intact. Recently, though, he's targeting his anger towards enemies instead of household objects, so it's progress. Raph also learns to chill out a bit when he meets (and falls for) a certain runaway foster child who has just as much of an anger problem as he does. He's 15, a common snapping turtle, and his mystic power is geokinesis (earth).

Michelangelo just wants to party with his fam. He's an eccentric little dude that always knows how to turn up the party. She's the heart of the team, always knowing how to resolve issues within the team and how to find the positives in stuff. When she was mutated, she was actually given a little more power than her siblings, making her the most powerful with her mystic abilities. But, that means that controlling their power is a lot more difficult, and being kinda sensitive and emotional has resulted in more than one room of the lair getting burned down. They've tried their best to keep it under control but if their emotions end up getting the best of them, uh...good luck, bud. You'll need it. He's also taken a great interest in art and sometimes goes to the surface to graffiti the city, often joined by either April or Casey. He's 14, an eastern box turtle, and his mystic power is pyrokinesis (fire).

Hamato 'Splinter' Yoshi needs sleep. A lot of it. He grew rebellious of the Hamato Clan due to his father's treatment of him and left for Los Angeles to become the action movie star Lou Jitsu. But, when his father called and said there was a Foot Clan situation up in NYC, Yoshi just had to help. And the rest is history. He was aware that while he was in Hollywood his family captured Oroku Saki, the one to inherit the Dark Armour and become The Shredder, but he never knew what Oroku Saki looked like. This had consequences later on. After an incident on the surface that involved a break-in, a human with a weapon, and a dent in Donnie's shell, Splinter finally went back to the ways of ninjutsu to keep his children safe from the surface. When the turtles met April and Casey, Splinter practically jumped for joy at the thought of talking to actual people again. he also trains them as well as the turtles. Splinter hopes to reconnect with the Hamato Clan after him and his children started fighting the Foot, but little does he know the lies that he's been fed as a child...

Baron Draxum is, well.... we don't exactly know what he is. After he and his mother were taken and experimented on by a human military group called the Terrestrial Cryptic Research Inventory (TCRI) when he was six, not even he does, really. All we know is that he's a powerful guy who HATES humans after his encounters with TCRI. Though, a long time ago, he did save the life of one man and entrusted said man with 4 turtles that he mutated with the powers given to him by TCRI's experimentation. And meeting them again 16 years later was definitely a shock. But, he's tried to be as best of a father as he can to the turtles, and has tried to teach each of them about their own powers as best as he can. He owns a store in the Hidden City that sells all sorts of mystic goos, potions, and enchanted objects.

April O'Neil CANNOT catch a break. Let's just say that, being raised in the foster care system, she knows how to defend herself. April and her cousin Casey Jones ran away from their foster parents when she aged out of the system and they wanted to separate April and Casey. But, when Casey got in trouble with the cops, April got separated from them, now she's trying to find where they are, as well as finding her father, who she discovered is a scientist in NYC. She's very introverted and has a lot of trust issues, which is why it takes her a long time to actually open up to the Turtles once she becomes friends with them. She's also a huge bookworm and a great writer, and wants to have a career in journalism. She's currently living with Splinter and the Turtles until she can find Casey and her father and start a new life for both of them.

Casey Jones is a menace to society. Can't go one month without getting in trouble, and that's only when they get caught. They're not immediately introduced at the beginning of the story, due to the Foot Clan framing them for a crime they didn't commit. Instead, they're going to show up 6 months after April meets the turtles. Casey is instantly a part of the family due to April's stories about them, plus watching them in action during a street fight with some petty criminals (which Raph was absolutely smitten by). They're definitely a wild child who is on a mission to play hockey and overthrow society. They will also fight you for that one specific brand of eyeliner.

And that's it! I can't wait to show you guys more about this AU! I'll probably do another post that's all about the villains in the future. But in the meantime, u can read this post if u would like to see some silly villain banter

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A strange form of albinism is thought to have made this turtle such a ridiculous vivid yellow. Known as chromatic leucism, it happens when an animal is missing most of its pigment, aside from one - in this case yellow pteridine pigments. You can read more about this Indian flapshell turtle (Lissemys punctata) through the link in our bio. ​ ​📷 : Debashish Sharma/Twitter