Species Biographies
Here you will find information on a variety of information on many species of reptiles, invertebrates and other exotic pets. The species have been separated into categories for ease of searching. The animals are in alphabetical order based upon their common name where a reliable one is available. In other instances where scientific names are generally favoured (ie for the invertebrates) these have been favoured.
Tip: If you are looking for a particular species, press ctrl+f and type in either the common name or the scientific name of the species, then press find next, this should locate the species your looking for. If it doesn't, it could mean one of two things, either it is not there or you spelt it incorrectly.
If you come across a species guide with no pictures, you could always just do a google image search.
Note: Where vivarium sizes are given, inches are abbreviated to in, and feet are abbreviated to ft. The quoted sizes are for adults, and to be treated as guides, the actual size will vary with the size of the snake. Younger specimens will require smaller accomodation.
If your looking for a specific exotic pet, why not search for it using google?
There are well over 2000 species of snakes wordwide. Snakes belong to the order Squamata (they share this with lizards) and the suborder Serpentes. Snakes exist nearly everywhere on the planet, from the United Kingdom, to Africa to Australia...
There are well over 3000 species of lizards worldwide. Lizards belong to the order Squamata (they share this with snakes) and the suborder Lacertilia. Lizards exist nearly everywhere on the planet, from the United Kingdom, to Africa to Australia...
Chelonia
Click here to be taken to the list of chelonia documented
Invertebrates
There are approximately 800,000 species of invertebrates in the world. They are an extremely successful group of animals and are found virtually everywhere; where you find life you most probably find an invertebrate of some form or other. They are one of the eariest live forms to have walked the earth, and will undoubtedly be one of the last. Their sheer diversity ensures that whatever the environment there is a species that can survive in it: Antarctica; forgotten caves sealed off from sunlight in New Zealand; the bottom of the Pacific Ocean; in such diverse locations you will find invertebrates.
Invertebrates come in almost any form imaginable, from tiny organisms barely visible to the naked eye to massive 2 ft stick insects. Their diet is so also extremely diverse with species being found in nearly every available niche, from leaf eating stick insects to bird eating tarantulas (although the latter is a rare occurrence, it does happen). There are also scavenging species such as cockroaches, which will eat virtually any foodstuffs, attained in any way (hunted, grazed, scavenged, etc). In short, there is not much an invertebrate can’t do.
Click here to be taken to the list of invertebrates documented
