Amphibians > Anura
The Transvaal Forest Rain Frog (Breviceps sylvestris) is an enchanting, heavily built fossorial amphibian endemic strictly to fragmented mistbelt evergreen forests perched along the Soutpansberg and Wolkberg escarpments of northern South Africa. Instantly recognizable...
Fish > Galaxiiformes
Eldons Galaxias (Galaxias eldoni) is a critically localized, non-diadromous freshwater fish endemic strictly to small stream systems in the eastern Otago province of New Zealand’s South Island. Unlike many native whitebait galaxiids that migrate out to sea as...
Amphibians > Anura
The Villavicencio Rocket Frog (Allobates juanii) is a miniature, cryptic frog belonging to the aromobatid family Aromobatidae. Endemic strictly to a restricted, narrow belt of sub-Andean foothill forest near the city of Villavicencio in central Colombia, this tiny...
Birds > Apodiformes
The Esmeraldas Woodstar (Chaetocercus berlepschi) is one of the smallest avian creatures on Earth, holding the distinction of being South America’s second-smallest bird. Endemic exclusively to a narrow, fractured coastal woodland belt in western Ecuador, this...
Birds > Galliformes
The Horned Guan (Oreophasis derbianus), known in Spanish as the ‘Pavón cornudo,’ is one of the most magnificent and ancient cracid birds in the Americas. Belonging to a monotypic genus that represents an evolutionary relic dating back to the early Neogene,...
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