Amphibians > Craugastoridae & Robber Frogs
Miles’s Robber Frog (Craugastor milesi) is a rare, montane stream-adapted amphibian endemic strictly to the cloud forests of the Sierra de Omoa in northwestern Honduras. Believed to have gone entirely extinct during the catastrophic Central American...
Amphibians > Bufonidae & True Toads
The Wyoming Toad (Anaxyrus baxteri), formerly classified as Bufo baxteri, is one of the most critically imperiled amphibians on Earth and a focal point of North American wildlife recovery. Endemic strictly to a narrow, high-elevation plateau within the Laramie Basin...
Mammals > Hipposideridae & Roundleaf Bats
The Kolar Leaf-nosed Bat (Hipposideros hypophyllus) is one of the most geographically restricted and critically imperiled mammalian species on the planet. Confined strictly to a single subterranean granite cave situated near the village of Hanumanahalli in the Kolar...
Plants > Nepenthaceae & Pitcher Plants
The Large-leaved Pitcher Plant (Nepenthes macrophylla) is one of the most magnificent, rare, and visually imposing carnivorous plants on Earth. Strictly endemic to the hyper-isolated summit ridge of Mount Trusmadi in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo—the second-highest peak in...
Birds > Picidae & Woodpeckers
Kaempfer’s Woodpecker (Celeus obrieni) is one of the most remarkable ‘Lazarus species’ in the history of Neotropical ornithology. Originally known only from a single holotype specimen collected in 1926 in Maranhão, Brazil, the species went undetected...
