It is practically impossible to tell if you are new to Turtle keeping, and if you are handed over with a very juvenile turtle this becomes all the more difficult. This is how you can do it ...
The males of all turtles will have a longer, thicker tail, with the cloaca located closer to the tip of the tail, whereas females with have a smaller, thinner tail with the vent closer to the main part of the body. In some of the more commonly kept turtles (Sliders, some Maps, Painteds, Cooters), males will also have exceptionally long fore claws, the females having smaller ones. Males in some species will also display a concave or dented-in plastron. This is to allow the male to better mount the female when mating. Adult females, which have laid a clutch of eggs, will have a semi-pliable anal section of the plastron. The females, however, in most species of turtles, will be larger...sometimes 4 x larger...than the males.
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