Reptiles > Squamata
The Buleli Gecko (Lepidodactylus buleli), discovered during the landmark 2006 SANTO global biodiversity expedition and scientifically described in 2008, is an exquisite, arboreal lizard confined strictly to the high rainforest canopy of Espiritu Santo, the largest...
Amphibians > Anura
The Nilgiri Bush Frog (Raorchestes tinniens) is a miniature, vocal amphibian endemic exclusively to the misty high-elevation peaks of the Nilgiri Hills in southern India’s Western Ghats global biodiversity hotspot. Living in an extraordinary sky-island ecosystem...
Mammals > Primates
The Arunachal Macaque (Macaca munzala), formally described by primatologists in 2005, represents one of the most remarkable mammalian discoveries of the twenty-first century. Endemic to the rugged valleys of western Arunachal Pradesh in the Eastern Himalayas, this...
Plants > Nepenthales
The Kinabalu Pitcher Plant (Nepenthes rajah) is universally acknowledged as the largest carnivorous pitcher plant in the world, found exclusively on the upper slopes of Mount Kinabalu and Mount Tambuyukon in Malaysian Borneo. Renowned for its enormous, urn-shaped...
Amphibians > Anura
The Goliath Frog (Conraua goliath) is the largest extant anuran on Earth, inhabiting a narrow coastal strip of dense equatorial rainforest across Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea. Capable of reaching the mass of a domestic house cat, this colossal amphibian is...
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