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McCord’s Box Turtle
A dazzling, China-endemic box turtle (Cuora mccordi) from Guangxi - extremely rare and CITES II; wild individuals are essentially unobtainable. Education-only.
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.
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.
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.
Marginated Tortoise
The largest Mediterranean tortoise, with a fan-like flared rear shell - temperate-climate friendly and a good (if winter-careful) European tortoise.
Indian Star Tortoise
A stunning radiated-pattern star tortoise - beautiful but famously prone to sudden death from humidity/temperature swings. CITES I; captive-bred only.
Green Iguana
The classic large pet lizard - arboreal, personable, but a serious 2 m, 20-year commitment needing big vertical space, heat and UVB.
Yunnan Box Turtle
A Chinese endemic box turtle once thought extinct and now among the rarest, most expensive turtles - effectively not a legal pet trade animal.
Aldabra Giant Tortoise
One of the two largest tortoises on Earth - a gentle giant that may outlive you. Captive-bred, legally imported animals only.
Western Painted Turtle
The largest painted-turtle subspecies - colourful, common, and a good (if feisty) North American water turtle for keepers who avoid crowding.