Practical Encyclopedia of Keeping Torotises and Freshwater Turtl
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This excellent book has been re-printed due to some rather high pricing on some of the auction and book sites. So everyone now has the opportunity to own the book at standard retail price.

This is a great resource to add to anyone’s book collection, for constant reference and refreshment. This book written by Andy Highfield covers all you need to know about tortoise and turtle husbandry, many high quality colour photograph, including full species accounts for many tortoises and turtles: The book covers:
The Role Of Captive Breeding

Eggs and Incubation

Designing and Constructing an Incubator

Hatchling and Juvenile Care

Environmental maintenance

Captive Management of aquatic and semi aquatic species

Dietary management and nutritional disorders

Parasitic Diseases

Bacterial and viral diseases

Species accounts:

Acanthochelys pallidipectoris (friberg, 1945) Chaco side-necked turtle

Aldabrachelys (Geochelone) Gigantea
Asterochelys (Geochelone) Radiata (Shaw, 1802) The Radiated Tortoise

Batagur baska (Gray, 1830) Giant Asian river terrapin

Carettochelys Insculpta (Ramsey, 1987) The pig-nosed turtle

Chelodina Longicollis (shaw, 1802), Common autrralian snake-necked turtle

Chelus Fimbriatus (dumeril, 1806) Matamata

Chelydra Serpentina (Linnaeus, 1758) Common Snapping turtle

Chersina Angulata (Schweigger, 1812) The Angulate tortoise

Chinemys_Reevesi (Gray, 1831) Reeves terrapin or Chinese three-keeled pond turtle

Chrysemys Picta (Schneider, 1783) The painted turtle

Clemmys Guttata ( Schneider, 1792) The spotted turtle

Clemmys Insculpta (LeConte, 1830) The Wood Turtle

Clemmys Muhlenbergii (Schoepff, 1801) The Bog Turtle

Cuora Amboinensis (Daudin, 1802) Malayan box Turtle

Clclemys Dentata (Gray, 1831) Asian Leaf turtle

Emydoidea Blandingii (Holbrook, 1838)

Emydura Subglobosa (Krefft, 1876) Red-bellied short-necked turtle

Emys Orbicularis (Linnaeus, 1758) The European pond terrapin

Geochelone Carbonaria (Spix, 1824) The Red-foot tortoise

Geochelone Chilensis (Gray, 1870) The Caco or Argentine tortoise

Geochelone Denticulata (Linnaeus, 1766) The Yellow-foot or forest tortoise

Geochelone Elegans (Schoepff, 1794) The Indian Star tortoise

Geochelone Pardalis (Bell, 1828) The Leopard tortoise

Geochelone Sulcata (Miller, 1779) The African Spurred Tortoise

Geoemyda Spengleri (Gmelin, 1789) The Leaf turtle

Gopherus Spp. (Rafinesque, 1832) Gopher Tortoise

Graptemys Spp. (Agassiz, 1857) Map turtle

Heosmeys Grandis (Gray, 1860) Giant Asian pond turtle

Heosemys Spinosa (Gray, 1831) The cog-wheel turtle

Homopus Spp. (Dumeril and Bibron, 1835) The Padloper tortoise

Hydromedusa Tectifera (Cope, 1870) Argentine snake-necked turtle

Indotestudo Elongata (Blyth, 1853) The Elongated tortoise

Indotestudo Forstenii (Schlegal and Muller, 1844) Travancore tortoise

Kachuga Teca (Gray, 1831) The Indian Roofed terrapin

Kinixys Spp. (Bell 1827) African Hingeback tortoises

Kinosternon Spp. (Spix, 1824) Mud and Musk turtle

Malaclemys Terrapin (Schoepff, 1793) The diamondback terrapin

Malacochersus Tornieri (Siebenrock, 1903) The Pancake tortoise

Melanochelys Trijuga (Schweigger, 1812) Indian Black turtle or Indian Snail-eating turtle

Manouria Emys (Schlegal and Muller, 1844) Burmese Brown tortoise

Manouria Impressa (Gunther, 1882) The Impressed tortoise

Mauremys Spp. (Grey, 1869) Mediterranean and Asiatic pond terrapins

Pelomedusa Subrufa (Lacepede , 1788) African helmeted terrapin

Pelusios Spp (Wagler, 1830) African side-necked terrapins

Phrynops Spp. (Wagler, 1830) South American side-necked turtles

Platemys (Wagler, 1830) South American chelid side-necked turtles

Platysternon Megacephalu (Gray, 1831) Big-Headed Turtle

Podocnemis Unifilis (Troschel 1848) Yellow Spotted River Turtle

Psammobates spp (Fitzinger, 1835) South Africian Tent Tortoises

Pyxidea Mouhotti (Gray, 1862) The Vietnamese or Keeled box turtle

Rhinoclemmys Spp. (Fitzinger, 1835) South America wood turtles

Siebenrockiella Crassicollis (Gray, 1831) Black marsh terrapin

Terrapene (Merrem, 1820) American box turtle

Testudo Graeca (Linnaeus, 1758) The north American or Moorish tortoise

Testudo Hermanni (Gmelin, 1789) Hermanns tortoise

Testudo Horsfieldi (Gray, 1844) The Afgan or Steppe tortoise

Testudo Ibera (Pallas, 1844) The Greek or Turkish Spur-thighed tortoise

Testudo Kleinmanni (Lortet, 1883) The Egyptian tortoise

Testudo Marginata (Schoepff, 1792) The Marginated tortoise

Trachemys Scripta (Schoepff, 1792) Slider

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