What happened to my tortoise?

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Pls guys tell me what happen to my star tortoise as their are some marks on the shell.pls help me guys

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Tom

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Pls guys tell me what happen to my star tortoise as their are some marks on the shell.pls help me guys
I zoomed in on your picture and that looks like normal pigment to me. Can you feel a difference in consistency if you run your finger over that area?
 

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I think the question refers to some slight indentations or creases in the scute. My stars sort of have something similar running the length of the carapace right down the middle of the vertebral scutes. It's roughly symmetrical, and I've assumed normal or not harmful.
 

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It's almost like a dent in the scute occurring from no apparent trauma to the animal. Just a mild interruption in contiguous scute edge formation. It's as solid as any other part of the shell however and seems to continue to develop that way with successive growth rings.
 

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