Series 19 · The Box Turtle Collection

Ten of Asia’s most precious turtles — hinge-shelled box turtles that can close themselves up like a living case, including some of the rarest and most endangered turtles on Earth — each hand-painted in lifelike detail, then reimagined plump, round and full of cheer. Living treasures of the forest floor, shrunk to the palm of your hand.

Yellow-margined Box Turtle (China)

The Yellow-margined Box Turtle from mainland China — a hinged-shell turtle that can seal itself completely shut, and a beloved but threatened species.

Yellow-margined Box Turtle (Taiwan)

The Yellow-margined Box Turtle of Taiwan — the island form of the shell-sealing box turtle, locally treasured and strictly protected.

McCord’s Box Turtle

McCord’s Box Turtle — a strikingly colored box turtle so rare it was unknown to science until 1988, and is now critically endangered.

Golden Coin Turtle

The Chinese Three-striped Box Turtle, or ‘Golden Coin Turtle’ — perhaps the most valuable turtle on Earth, and one of the most endangered.

Golden-headed Box Turtle

The Golden-headed Box Turtle — a critically endangered Chinese box turtle crowned with a brilliant golden-yellow head.

Indochinese Box Turtle

The Indochinese Box Turtle — a beautifully patterned ‘flowerback’ box turtle of Southeast Asia’s forests, and another highly endangered treasure.

Jagged-shelled Turtle

The Jagged-shelled Turtle — a rugged forest box turtle with a strongly keeled, saw-toothed shell that stands out from its smooth-shelled cousins.

Yellow Pond Turtle

The Yellow Pond Turtle — a hardy, semi-aquatic East Asian turtle marked with a broad golden-yellow stripe along each side of the head.

Diamondback Terrapin

The Carolina Diamondback Terrapin — the only turtle that lives in the brackish salt marshes of America’s coasts, patterned with diamond rings on its shell.

Vietnamese Leaf Turtle

The hidden treasure of Series 19 — the Vietnamese Leaf Turtle, a tiny big-eyed forest turtle whose serrated brown shell looks exactly like a fallen leaf.