No scales either.
“A tortise without a shell?
No scales either.”
I seem to remember that turtle and tortise shells have the backbone of these animals fused to it. The only place these shells slip on and off is in cartoons.
Of course, no scale and a single picture is par for the course for these mystery monsters. Presumably the photographer could have added these things but didn’t.
The teeth on the thing resemble a dog’s to me as does the rest of the body except for the snout.