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Category: Reptiles
Texas River Cooter
A large freshwater turtle with a flat, olive shell bearing dark markings and a yellow plastron.
Eastern Box Turtle
A highly domed terrestrial turtle with a hinged plastron that can close completely to form an impenetrable box…
Ornate Box Turtle
A terrestrial box turtle with radiating yellow lines (stars) on a dark shell and a fully closable hinged plast…
Pond Slider (incl. Red-eared Slider)
The most widely distributed and commonly kept turtle in the world, with several subspecies including the famou…
Meso-American Slider
A large slider with a dark shell and distinctive bright red or orange head stripes and eye markings.
Painted Turtle
The most widespread native turtle of North America, with a smooth, flat shell whose margins are painted with r…
Chicken Turtle
A distinctive turtle with an unusually long, striped neck (nearly as long as its shell) and a broad, oval, fin…
Southern River Terrapin
One of the largest Asian river turtles, with a wide, heavy, olive-to-grey shell.
Northern River Terrapin
A large, powerful river terrapin with a heavy domed shell and a distinctive upturned snout.
Painted Terrapin
A large terrapin whose breeding males turn nearly black with a striking white, cream, or pink head and face, g…
Burmese Roofed Turtle
Among the most endangered turtles in the world, with only a handful of individuals known in the wild.
Southeast Asian Box Turtle (Malayan Box Turtle)
A semi-aquatic box turtle with a domed, dark shell and a distinctive yellow stripe running along each side of …
Yellow-margined Box Turtle
A strikingly patterned box turtle with a high-domed shell bearing a light yellow or cream vertebral stripe and…
Indochinese Box Turtle
A box turtle with a tan to brown shell that often bears a dark central pattern, and a hinged plastron.
Golden Coin Turtle (Chinese Three-banded Box Turtle)
Famous for the three dark longitudinal bands on its tan or golden-brown shell, and for being one of the most v…
Asian Leaf Turtle
A medium-sized freshwater turtle with a flattened, oval, dark brown or black shell whose shape resembles a lea…
Black-breasted Leaf Turtle
A small, secretive turtle with a flattened shell whose rear margin is strongly serrated, and a bright yellow o…
Ryukyu Black-breasted Leaf Turtle
Endemic to the Ryukyu Islands, this small leaf turtle has a flattened, serrated-margin shell and a distinct ye…
Spiny Turtle
Named for the young's shell, whose marginal scutes project into sharp, spiny points that become blunter with a…
Arakan Forest Turtle
One of the rarest turtles in the world, rediscovered in the Arakan Hills of Myanmar in 1994 after being though…
Reeves' Turtle (Chinese Pond Turtle)
A small-to-medium pond turtle with a smooth, olive-to-brown shell and three weak keels on the carapace; males …
Yellow Pond Turtle (Asian Yellow Pond Turtle)
A medium-sized pond turtle with a brown or yellowish-brown shell, a bright yellow or cream head stripe, and ye…
Chinese Stripe-necked Turtle
A handsome pond turtle with a greyish-brown shell and distinctive yellow stripes running down the neck and alo…
Vietnamese Pond Turtle
A medium-sized turtle with a dark shell bearing light radiating lines and distinctive yellow stripes on the he…
