Intro
Species Bites
Here you will find information on a variety of information on many species of exotic pets. The species have been seperated into categories for ease of searching. The animals are in alphabetical order, based on their common name. I'm only human, so I do make mistakes, which is why I recomend using the tip below.
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?
Snakes
Lizards (including geckos)
Chelonia (tortoises and turtles)
Chelonia
Click here to be taken to the list of chelonia documented
Invertebrates
Invertebrates
There are approximately 800,000 species of invertebrates in the world. They 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 microscopic organisms which are all around us and which we can't see, to massive 2 ft stick insects. Their diet is so also extremely diverse, in fact there is a species to eat virtually anything, from leaf eating stick insects to bird eating tarantulas (although this is a rare occurance, 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).
Invertebrates cannot be classified into one body design - in fact you can have legless worms to millipedes which can have hundreds of legs. You can have spiders with two body segments (the thorax and the abdomen) and you can have millipedes with up to a hundred body segments.
Click here to be taken to the list of invertebrates documented
arachnids
Arachnids
Although these are inverts, they are a unique species in their own right. There are over 70,000 arachnids which exist. They are found all over the world, from the United Kingdom to Australia. The two main species in this group are scorpions (Scorpionidea) and spiders (Orthogennatha) although there are many other species in this group, including mites.