To determine the main morphological traits that influence the body weight of the Chinese soft-shelled turtle, Trionysx sinesis, carapace length, plastron length carapace width and body height of 100 day-old and 300 day-old turtles were measured. Results showed that carapace length, carapace width, body height and plastron length were significantly correlated with body weight(P〈0.01), the correlation index were 0.891, 0.651, 0.907 and 0.671 for 100 day-old T. sinesis and 0.724, 0.606, 0.625 and 0.424 for 300 old-day T. sinesis, respectively. ...