Description
The carapace is highly domed and light brown in colour with prominent growth rings on each scute. The outer parts of the vertebral is a darker brown. The gular scute of the plastron projects forward between the front legs and curves upward toward the neck.
Males are larger than females, reaching a carapace length up to 17 inches (43 cm). Fully grown male angonoka tortoises are larger, as well as heavier, than females. The average length of an adult male angonoka tortoise is 414.8 millimetres (16.33 in) and the average weight is 10.3 kilograms (23 lb). Females measure at a 370.1 millimetres (14.57 in) average and weigh a 8.8 kilograms (19 lb) average.
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