Birds > Laughingthrushes
The Blue-crowned Laughingthrush (Garrulax courtoisi) is one of the rarest, most dazzling passerines on the Asian continent. Sporting a vivid azure-blue crown, bright golden-yellow throat, and velvety black ocular mask, this jewel-toned songbird was lost to science for...
Reptiles > Skinks
The Kaputar Rock Skink (Egernia roomi) is a rare, heavily armored montane reptile confined strictly to the high volcanic peaks of Mount Kaputar in northern New South Wales, Australia. Isolated atop ancient basalt outcrops formed by volcanic eruptions millions of years...
Fish > Galaxiids
The Flathead Galaxias (Galaxias rostratus) is a critically imperiled small freshwater fish endemic to the lowland floodplain waterways of southeastern Australia’s Murray-Darling river system. Unlike many galaxiids that undertake seasonal migrations to the sea,...
Reptiles > Agamids
The Condamine Earless Dragon (Tympanocryptis condaminensis) is an extraordinary, diminutive agamid lizard endemic entirely to the fertile floodplains of the Darling Downs in southeastern Queensland. Distinctly adapted to open grasslands on deep cracking clay soils,...
Amphibians > Frogs
The Kuranda Tree Frog (Litoria myola) is an exquisitely camouflaged and critically imperiled amphibian endemic to an exceptionally small pocket of tropical rainforest in Far North Queensland, Australia. Formally distinguished from its close relative the torrent tree...
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