Medium-sized (up to 24 cm CL) turtle. Carapace olive brown with network of yellow lines (resembling a road map); some lines encircle dark brown smudges. Vertebral knobs and keel dark brown. Plastron pale yellow with dark pigment bordering scute seams. Female larger than male and with broader head. Male with elongate foreclaws and cloacal opening behind end of carapace.