Fish > Cyprinidae & Minnows
The Sumatran Paedocypris (Paedocypris progenetica) is one of the smallest vertebrate animals ever discovered by modern science, a miniature cyprinid fish native exclusively to the extreme, highly acidic peat swamp forests of Sumatra and Bintan Island, Indonesia....
Mammals > Viverridae & Civets
Owston’s Palm Civet (Chrotogale owstoni) is an exceptionally striking, specialized small carnivoran endemic to the moist evergreen forests of the Annamite Range across Vietnam, Laos, and southern China. Instantly recognizable by its bold tawny-buff pelage marked...
Mammals > Cercopithecidae & Old World Monkeys
The Black Snub-nosed Monkey (Rhinopithecus bieti), also celebrated as the Yunnan snub-nosed monkey, is the highest-dwelling non-human primate on planet Earth, thriving at breath-taking elevations exceeding 14,000 feet in the rugged Hengduan Mountains of southwestern...
Reptiles > Gekkonidae & Day Geckos
The Yellow-headed Day Gecko (Phelsuma klemmeri), affectionately known to herpetologists as the ‘neon day gecko,’ is universally celebrated as one of the most stunningly colored and visually dazzling reptiles on Earth. Strictly endemic to a tiny, fragmented...
Reptiles > Sphaerodactylidae & Dwarf Geckos
The Jaragua Sphaero (Sphaerodactylus ariasae), also known as the Jaragua dwarf gecko, shares the remarkable biological world record as the smallest known terrestrial amniote and reptile on Earth. Measuring barely sixteen millimeters from the tip of its snout to its...
