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Angonoka (Ploughshare) Tortoise
One of the world's ten most endangered turtles - fewer than 1,000 left in Madagascar, CITES I, and effectively not tradable. Education-only profile.
Amboina Box Turtle
The most common and cheapest of the seven box turtles (Cuora amboinensis) - shy, very aquatic, and the most beginner-friendly of the box turtles.
Impressed Tortoise
A large, temperamental Southeast Asian forest tortoise (Manouria impressa) - China's Grade II protected, wild-caught and declining; not recommended for keepers.
Annam Turtle
A Vietnamese endemic box-turtle lookalike (Mauremys annamensis) - rare, expensive, and a Vietnam first-class protected species; trade is effectively off-limits.
Komodo Dragon
The world's largest lizard - a 3 m, 90 kg apex predator with venom glands and septic saliva. Protected and NOT a pet; this profile is educational only.
Helmeted Turtle
A common, hardy African side-neck turtle - small, gregarious, a strong carnivore, and a good tropical-community water turtle (no brumation).
Central American Snapping Turtle
The rarest of the four chelydran snapping-turtle subspecies - large, dark, pugnacious, and really a 'meat turtle', not a home pet.
Chinese Striped-neck Turtle
A pretty, beginner-friendly Asian water turtle with green-and-black neck stripes and pearly juvenile edge spots - common captive-bred, but wild stocks are scarce.
Chinese Pond Turtle (Reeves’ Turtle)
China's most common native turtle - hardy, cheap, and the 'ink turtle' that turns black with age. A classic, beginner-friendly pond turtle.
Pig-nosed Turtle
A bizarre, soft-shelled, flipper-limbed 'fly river turtle' that looks more like a turtle-bream hybrid - fully aquatic, sensitive to water quality, and a committed non-basker.