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African Spurred Tortoise (Sulcata)
The third-largest tortoise in the world and a desert specialist - adorable as a hatchling, but it grows into a 50-70 kg excavation machine.
Chinese Water Snake
A small, fish-eating Asian water snake - mild-tempered, aquatic, and a manageable species for keepers interested in natricine snakes.
Matamata
A bizarre, leaf-like ambush turtle from South America with a flattened head and neck fringes - one of the strangest faces in the turtle world.
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.
Fiji Banded Iguana
The Fiji banded iguana (Brachylophus fasciatus) is a vividly striped, diurnal arboreal iguana endemic to Fiji and Tonga, listed under CITES Appendix I as an endangered species and very rarely seen in the pet trade.
Black Marsh Turtle
The Black Marsh Turtle (Siebenrockiella crassicollis), also called the Siamese temple turtle, is a medium-sized black freshwater turtle from Southeast Asia. Wild numbers are low, but captive-bred individuals now meet demand. An IUCN Vulnerable species, it is not for beginners.
Burmese Black Turtle
The Burmese Black Turtle (Melanochelys trijuga indopeninsularis) is one of the seven subspecies of the Indian black turtle (three-keeled turtle). Common in Chinese pet markets — almost all sourced from wild capture — it is inexpensive but plain-looking, so it is kept in modest numbers.
Malayan Horned Frog
The Malayan horned frog (Megophrys nasuta), also called the triangular leaf frog, is a master of leaf-litter mimicry from the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra. A large, nocturnal amphibian with a huge appetite.
Gould’s Monitor
Gould's Monitor (Varanus gouldii), also called the Sand Monitor or Racehorse Goanna, is a large, fast and hardy Australian monitor. When threatened it rears on its hind legs, inflates its neck and hisses; impressive but hard to tame and potentially dangerous as an adult.
Yellow-blotched Sawback
The Yellow-blotched Sawback (Graptemys flavimaculata) is the most vividly marked map turtle, endemic to Mississippi's Pascagoula River. Strictly protected in the United States and rarely seen in trade, it has no successful captive breeding.