Blue Swimmer Crab

Invertebrates > Crustaceans

The Blue Swimmer Crab (Portunus armatus), celebrated across Australia as the ‘Blue Manna Crab’ or ‘Sand Crab’, is one of the most vividly beautiful, commercially prized, and dynamic marine crustaceans in the Southern Hemisphere. Resplendent in...

Red-necked Wallaby

Mammals > Marsupials

The Red-necked Wallaby (Notamacropus rufogriseus), widely celebrated across Australia and Tasmania as Bennett’s Wallaby, is one of the most familiar, handsome, and adaptable medium-sized macropods of eastern Australia. Easily recognized by the bright, rusty-red...

Southern Gastric-brooding Frog

Amphibians > Frogs

The Southern Gastric-brooding Frog (Rheobatrachus silus) is universally regarded in evolutionary biology as one of the most astonishing, miraculous, and tragic amphibians in history. Discovered in 1972 in the mountain streams of Queensland, Australia, this small,...

Beech Orange

Fungi > Cyttariales

The Beech Orange (Cyttaria gunnii), also affectionately known in Tasmania as the ‘Golf Ball Fungus’ or ‘Cyttaria’, is one of the most bizarre and visually captivating ascomycete fungi in the Southern Hemisphere. Forming dense, grape-like...

Common Yabby

Invertebrates > Crayfish

The Common Yabby (Cherax destructor) is Australia’s most famous and beloved freshwater crayfish. Described scientifically with the fearsome species name ‘destructor’ for its notorious habit of burrowing into and undermining the earthen walls of farm...