Plants > Asterales
The Maui Cyanea (Cyanea asplenifolia), known in Hawaiian botanical tradition as haha, is an extraordinary, critically endangered lobeliad shrub endemic exclusively to the island of Maui. Part of the renowned Hawaiian lobelioid adaptive radiation—the largest plant...
Reptiles > Squamata
The Floreana Racer (Pseudalsophis biserialis) is an endangered, slender colubrid snake native strictly to the Floreana island complex within the iconic Galápagos Archipelago of Ecuador. Once the dominant terrestrial predator across mainland Floreana, this agile...
Mammals > Rodentia
The Santa Catarina Guinea Pig (Cavia intermedia) is a remarkably rare rodent possessing what is universally acknowledged as one of the smallest geographical ranges of any living mammal on the planet. Native exclusively to a single, uninhabited granite islet spanning a...
Amphibians > Anura
The Skunk Frog (Aromobates nocturnus) is an extraordinary and enigmatic anuran endemic strictly to a single cloud-forest stream ravine within the Venezuelan Andes. Distinguished biologically as the sole nocturnal member of its lineage within the superfamily...
Reptiles > Squamata
Bojer’s Skink (Gongylomorphus bojerii) is an agile, slender scincid lizard native exclusively to the Mascarene archipelago of Mauritius. Once widespread and abundant across the mainland’s coastal scrublands and dry palm forests, this ancient Mauritian...
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