Plants > Caryophyllales
Horst’s Discocactus (Discocactus horstii) is widely considered one of the rarest, most architecturally refined, and heavily sought-after succulent plants on Earth. Restricted to an extremely localized pocket of the Serra do Barão in Minas Gerais, Brazil, this...
Amphibians > Anura
The Golden Coqui (Eleutherodactylus jasperi) is one of the most biologically famous and tragically imperiled amphibians in the Americas. Endemic strictly to a tiny mountainous enclave in the Sierra de Cayey of southeastern Puerto Rico, this tiny, jewel-like tree frog...
Reptiles > Squamata
The Santa Catalina Island Rattlesnake (Crotalus catalinensis) is an extraordinary insular pit viper endemic exclusively to Isla Santa Catalina, an uninhabited desert island in the Gulf of California (Sea of Cortez), Mexico. Renowned in evolutionary biology for having...
Amphibians > Anura
Lozano’s Stubfoot Toad (Atelopus lozanoi), also known as the Chingaza harlequin frog, is a critically endangered highland amphibian native exclusively to the windswept páramos of the Cordillera Oriental in Colombia. Historically abundant across the mist-drenched...
Birds > Coraciiformes
The Marquesan Kingfisher (Todiramphus godeffroyi), locally known as the ‘pahi,’ is one of the most critically imperiled avian jewels in the Pacific basin. Endemic strictly to the remote Marquesas Archipelago of French Polynesia, this striking, vividly...
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