Fish > Cyprinidae & Carps
The Kanglang Fish (Anabarilius grahami) is a slender, silvery cyprinid fish endemic strictly to Lake Dianchi on the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau of southwestern China. Celebrated for millennia in Chinese folklore and regional gastronomy as a prized delicacy of Kunming, this...
Amphibians > Microhylidae & Narrow-mouthed Toads
The Amieu Rainforest Frog (Cophixalus amieuensis) is an exceptionally rare, diminutive microhylid frog endemic strictly to a tiny pocket of montane rainforest around the Col d’Amieu in central New Caledonia. As one of the very few indigenous amphibians native to...
Amphibians > Telmatobiidae & Water Frogs
Hall’s Water Frog (Telmatobius halli) is one of the most remarkable and improbable amphibians on planet Earth. Discovered originally in 1935 in a tiny geothermal spring oasis in Chile’s hyper-arid Atacama Desert—the driest non-polar desert on the globe—the...
Birds > Cracidae & Curassows
The Blue-billed Curassow (Crax alberti) is an imposing, turkey-sized gamebird endemic exclusively to the tropical lowland rainforests of northern Colombia. Renowned for the striking, sky-blue fleshy cere and wattle that adorns the bill of adult males, this majestic...
Birds > Calypturidae & Kinglet Calypturas
The Kinglet Calyptura (Calyptura cristata) is an exceedingly rare, miniature passerine bird endemic to the threatened Atlantic Forest of southeastern Brazil. Long feared extinct after vanishing for over a century without confirmed records, this tiny jewel of the...
