Plastron is angulate laterally in the young. The body whorl is obtusely angulate or rounded at the periphery. The others are obtusely angulate and crossed by many spiral lirae. The outer transverse line is sharply angulate in the middle. Internationally it is known by the two names of "angulate" and "bowsprit" tortoise. Shoulder are not angulate nor plicate and the anterior prickles on outer lip obsolete. The ventrals, which are angulate laterally, number 193-210. The body whorl is depressed, angulate at the periphery, and concentrically lirate below. The plastron is large, angulate laterally, truncate anteriorly. Its periphery is smooth or nodose, angulate or keeled. The plastron is large, strongly angulate laterally in the young, convex in the adult. The whorls are subdistant, and angulate at the sutures. Ventrals 183-209, obtusely angulate laterally; anal divided; subcaudals 57-77, in two rows. The Angulate tortoise is commonly kept as a garden pet in South Africa. "Danja" is also smaller than "injeolmi" and tends to be globular rather than angulate.