How do you tell if you have a male or female turtle?

Answer 1

A turtles color spots and the numbers of colors they have have NOTHING to do with it. Males generally have long skinny tails and females short fat tails. Males also grow really long front nails. But most female turtles grow larger than the males.

Answer 2

AnswerMales grow earlier in their life but females eventually get bigger than males. Females have shorter stubbier tales and males have longer skinnier tales.

For snapping turtles though, male private parts are farther away from their shells and obviously female private parts are closer to their shells. Female snapping turtles still grow larger than males.

Always remember to stay away from snapping turtles heads but never hold the from their tail because that can injure their backbone!!!! Hold them from the very back of the shell!!!

you can tell the sex by the females tale is much shorter and thinner and has a small cloacel region and the males tale being much longer and fatter and has a bigger cloacal region then the females

Answer 3

males generally have longer nails and tails than females. females generally grow much larger than males. however, most turtles look almost identical when they are young so you probably won't know for sure for at least a year or two. i went on ahead and named my turtle as a boy and so far i think i was right. lol. hope this helps.

Answer 4

This is highly dependent on which group the turtles belong to.

Some turtles and tortoises, but not all of them by far, have differences in the curvature of their plastron (or "belly"). A male would have a plastron that is concave (bending inward), while a female would not.

Some turtles have secondary sexual characteristics: In adult male Deirochelyinae turtles (Painteds, Sliders, Cooters, Map Turtles), the males have comparatively much longer claws on the front feet than females of the same species. In many species of Box turtle, an adult male will have a different colored eye than the female, although which color this is changes between species.

Size can be used, as in many species the females are larger than males (some species significantly so to where males have a different diet), but to use this one must have a relative guess as to the age of the turtle.

One of the best determiners is the tail. Males often have a larger and longer tail with a cloaca that is farther from the shell, while females often have short stubby tails. While in some turtle groups this is a large enough difference to give the male a massive tail, in others an unexperienced eye would need to compare to a known male and female of the same species to be sure.

In a very large percentage of turtle species there are no chromosomal differences between males and females, as the hormones controlling gender are instead determined by egg incubation temperature.