What species of turtle is this?

[deadheadvet]

Recent rescue, eats well, mixed greens, earthworms, meal worms. I am much better at tortoises but this one I am unsure about. Thanks.

 

[wellington]

A box turtle, not sure which kind. Maybe @Yvonne G will know.

 

[Tom]

You know I'm not a box turtle expert, but I think that is a little deformed 3 toed box turtle.

 

[Yvonne G]

I was going to say 3-toe too, but it has 4 toes on the back foot. It's a bit young to have a pattern showing yet on the carapace, but if the plastron is dark all over, it may be an eastern, and yes, deformed. (3-toe has a bone-colored plastron, no other color, eastern has an almost over all black colored plastron and the gulf coasts have a splotchy black plastron)

It's definitely a male. You can tell by the large back legs and the reddish color of the eyes. The tail's pretty long too.

 

[ColleenT]

looks like it has MBD and i thought 3-toed also, but might be an intergrade.

 

[Eric Phillips]

Glad you rescued him!

 

[deadheadvet]

My groomer is keeping him and it is eating really well amazingly. Earthworms, meal worms, some greens. Thanks for the i.d.