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Yellow-margined Box Turtle
A beautiful, box-hinged Asian turtle from central and southern China, personable and semi-aquatic - a long-time favourite among Chinese keepers.
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.
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.
Razor-backed Musk Turtle
The Razor-backed Musk Turtle (Sternotherus carinatus), affectionately called the 'razor' or 'little razor,' has a uniquely keeled, roof-like carapace. A common and easy musk turtle, it is active and interactive with keepers.
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.
Northern Black-humped Map Turtle
The Northern Black-humped Map Turtle (Graptemys nigrinoda nigrinoda) is a relatively common map turtle seen in markets worldwide. Affordable, easy to keep, and odd-looking, it is popular — the black hump-like knobs on the front vertebral scutes are its unmistakable mark.