scute

New growth adds dark rings around the pale center to each scute.

A scute is another, less common, type of scale.

It has a terminal scute with a transverse ridge and 2 points.

Scute comes from Latin for shield, and can take the form of:

Sometimes, faint yellow dots or lines are visible in the center of each large scute.

Terminal scute with a transverse ridge, but no points.

Terminal scute with a transverse ridge which is less distinct in females.

The nuchal scute is located at the base of the head.

Terminal scute very small, with two points.

The bottom of the shell is light yellow, often with two dark triangles on each abdominal scute.

The terminal scute also is laterally compressed, with two superposed points.

It has a brown-colored shell, with black markings at the edges of each scute.

The general color is a brownish-green shade with markings of red, orange, or yellow on each scute.

Although generally black, a chestnut sunburst pattern in each scute is sometimes present on the carapace.

The underside of the shell is yellow with dark markings in the center of each scute.

Each paramedian scute is covered in a random pattern of pits.

The terminal scute with two small spines.

He let the powder drizzle down over the shed tortoise scute, which he held in his left palm.

With an abrupt motion, he swept the scute and the henbane dust from his hand.

He'd used a tortoise scute before.

The carapace is highly domed and light brown in colour with prominent growth rings on each scute.

The short neck is covered with horny tubercles and on the top of the head is a large single scute.

Terminal scute with a transverse ridge, indistinctly bicuspid, rounded in the young.

The areola in each scute are pale yellow, orange or light brown and blend into the darker carapace.