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African Lungfish
The African lungfish is a living fossil of a fish: besides gills, it breathes with a lung-like swim bladder and can bury into mud to aestivate through a six-month dry season. A carnivorous, mostly placid fish that grows up to 1–2 m, it is now threatened as its native African waters shrink.
Parrotfish
The parrotfish (family Scaridae) is a brilliantly colored marine reef fish named for its beak-like mouth; adults reach 1.2 m. It likes warm, soft, acidic water and well-oxygenated tanks, and at night spins a mucus 'cocoon'.
Lionfish
Lionfish (Pterois), also called turkeyfish, is a popular ornamental marine fish with a distinctive fan-like pectoral fin. Its dorsal-fin spines are venomous—a sting causes severe pain and, in serious cases, fainting.
Western Pond Turtle
The western pond turtle, also called the California pond turtle, is a broad-headed, relatively secretive freshwater turtle native to the U.S. West Coast. An accomplished swimmer that loves basking, it is a protected species usually available only as captive-bred stock.
Hydrophis cyanocinctus
The blue-banded sea snake (Hydrophis cyanocinctus) is a venomous marine snake found along the coasts of East and Southeast Asia, distinguished by its black banding and strong swimming ability. It feeds mainly on fish and gives birth to live young in the open sea.
South American Snake-necked Turtle
The South American Snake-necked Turtle (Hydromedusa tectifera), also called the Argentine snake-necked turtle, is a popular but challenging species with a long smooth neck and rock-like shell. It is prone to shell rot and demands cool, slightly acidic water and careful husbandry.
Phrynops williamsi
Phrynops williamsi, also called the Masked Toadhead Turtle, is a side-necked turtle from South America that loves basking and is semi-aquatic in the wild. Lively and relatively easy to keep, it remains uncommon in captivity and is found mainly as wild-caught individuals.
Xinjiang Rock Agama
The Xinjiang rock agama (Laudakia stoliczkana) is a color-changing lizard native to Xinjiang, China, renowned for its remarkable ability to shift hue — its body lightens and its head and neck redden in sunlight, then darken again in shade.
Emydoidea blandingii (Blanding’s Turtle)
Blanding's turtle is a semi-aquatic turtle of the Great Lakes region, gentle and cold-hardy, with a smooth black helmet-shaped shell and a yellow hinged plastron marked with black blotches. It is omnivorous and adapts well to captivity.
Batagur baska (Northern River Terrapin)
The Batagur turtle is one of the largest freshwater turtles in Asia, living in Andaman coast estuaries from Bangladesh to Vietnam and feeding on mangrove seeds. Once thought extinct in Thailand, it is now classified as Critically Endangered and protected under CITES Appendix I.