Key: Step 4

4a. Plastron with movable hinge between pectoral and abdominal scutes; mesoplastra touching at plastral midline.





Genus Pelusios

Step 5. Genus Pelusios

4b. Plastron rigid, lacking a movable hinge between pectoral and abdominal scutes; mesoplastra separated widely.





Genus Pelomedusa, Pelomedusa subrufa

Step 24
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