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Asian Yellow Pond Turtle
A long-lived, attractive pond turtle from southern China and Vietnam, once abundant and now increasingly captive-bred for the pet and food trade.
Yellow-spotted Amazon River Turtle
A large, sociable side-necked turtle from the Amazon basin, recognisable by the bright yellow spots on its head - impressive, intelligent, and space-hungry.
Flame Turtle
A flame-pattern morph popular in the pet trade - in practice a richly marked red-eared slider or painted-turtle lineage rather than a separate species.
Striped Mud Turtle
A small, attractive mud turtle from Florida with three pale stripes down its shell - compact, personable, and a good choice for keepers wanting a tiny turtle.
Florida Box Turtle
A strikingly patterned subspecies of the common box turtle from Florida, with a high domed shell, a hinged plastron, and a lifespan that can exceed a century.
Alligator Snapping Turtle
The largest freshwater turtle in the world, a prehistoric-looking ambush predator that lures fish with a worm-like tongue - powerful, demanding, and strictly for experts.
Egg Turtles (Mud & Musk Turtles)
A collective name for the small, egg-shaped turtles of the family Kinosternidae - the mud turtles and musk turtles - popular for their compact size and personable behaviour.
Brazilian Whiteknee Tarantula
The Brazilian whiteknee tarantula (Acanthoscurria geniculata) is a boldly black-and-white striped, fast-growing pet tarantula from Brazil — note that taxonomically it is an arachnid, not a reptile, but it is grouped here with the reptile-archive keepers' species.
Himalayan Burrowing Viper
A rare, secretive, highly venomous montane viper from the Himalayas - one of the few front-fanged vipers kept only by specialist venom programmes.
Buff-striped Keelback
The Buff-striped Keelback (Amphiesma stolatum) is a small, non-venomous, diurnal snake reaching about 90 cm, with interlaced gray-brown and yellow-brown patterns. Gentle in temperament, its numbers have dropped sharply due to pesticide use.