Cui-ui

The Cui-ui (Chasmistes cujus) is a large, prehistoric-looking lake sucker endemic exclusively to the alkaline waters of Pyramid Lake in the Great Basin of Nevada. A sacred species of supreme cultural and historical significance to the Kooyooe Tukadu (Cui-ui Eaters)...

Striped Plateau Lizard

The Coachella Valley Fringe-toed Lizard (Uma inornata) is an endangered, hyper-specialized reptile found nowhere else on Earth outside the windblown sand dune systems of the Coachella Valley in southern California. With specialized comblike scales on its toes that act...

Reticulated Flatwoods Salamander

The Reticulated Flatwoods Salamander (Ambystoma bishopi) is a critically endangered mole salamander found only in a handful of isolated, fire-dependent coastal plain wetlands in the Florida Panhandle and southwestern Georgia. Named for the intricate, net-like lace of...

Frosted Flatwoods Salamander

The Frosted Flatwoods Salamander (Ambystoma cingulatum) is an endangered, burrowing mole salamander endemic to the critically imperiled longleaf pine flatwoods of the southeastern United States. Named for the delicate, silvery-grey netlike or ‘frosted’...

Nile Lechwe

The Nile Lechwe (Kobus megaceros), also called Mrs. Gray’s Lechwe, is an elegant, semi-aquatic antelope endemic to the vast papyrus swamps and floodplains of the Sudd in South Sudan and western Ethiopia. Renowned for its extreme sexual dimorphism, mature males...
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