Fish > Cyprinidae & Carps
Jullien’s Golden Carp (Probarbus jullieni), known across the Mekong as the Seven-striped Barb or ‘Pla E-sok,’ is one of Southeast Asia’s most magnificent and threatened freshwater river giants. Belonging to the ancient carp family Cyprinidae,...
Reptiles > Chelidae & Side-necked Turtles
The Western Swamp Turtle (Pseudemydura umbrina) is Australia’s rarest reptile and the most critically endangered freshwater chelonian on the continent. Endemic strictly to a microscopic strip of ephemeral claypan swamps in the Swan Coastal Plain near Perth,...
Birds > Cuculidae & Cuckoos
The Black-hooded Coucal (Centropus steerii) is one of the rarest, most elusive, and critically imperiled cuckoos in the world, found nowhere on Earth outside the island of Mindoro in the Philippines. Characterized by its magnificent velvety black hood, iridescent...
Mammals > Tachyglossidae & Monotremes
Barton’s Long-beaked Echidna (Zaglossus bartoni) is a monumental and critically endangered egg-laying mammal (monotreme) endemic strictly to the rugged mountain highlands of New Guinea. Ranking among the largest extant monotremes on Earth, this living...
Fish > Acipenseridae & Sturgeons
Dabry’s Sturgeon (Acipenser dabryanus), commonly known throughout China as the Yangtze Sturgeon, is a prehistoric freshwater chondrostean fish endemic strictly to the Yangtze River system. Dating back more than 140 million years to the Early Cretaceous epoch,...
