What species is this?

Boogeyman

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Hello
My sister's neighbor has a tortoise do you guys know what species this is? It doesn't look like a Sulcuta..Screenshot_20200427-171421_Messages.jpg
 

iAmCentrochelys sulcata

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looks like a Yellow-foot told tortoise, might want to wait to make sure. do you have any tortoises yourself?
 

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You guys are killing me! Now all we need is somebody callin it a Chaco, LOL.

For what it’s worth, I vote desert tortoise (or maybe Texas tortoise).
 

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Head definitely looks like a Sulcata.
 

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We need better pictures to be sure. From the rear it looks like a desert tortoise with the 5th vertebral that wide and the rear edge of the shell not very serrated. The first picture you posted just doesn't look like there is a nuchal, but its hard to see.
 

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It looks smaller than a desert tortoise and still has the yellow parts in the middle of each scute, usually desert tortoises lose it. And the shell seems more gopherus berlandieri
 

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A couple pics of a Texas tortoise.
Gopherus berlianderi - Texas Tortoise -- Discover Life mobile
Texas tortoise (Gopherus berlandieri) | Tortoises, Tortoise as pets
 
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