Plants > Caryophyllales
The Yellow Orchid Cactus (Disocactus macranthus) is a charming, epiphytic cactus species native to the cloud-draped mountain rainforests of southern Mexico and Guatemala. Unlike its desert-dwelling relatives, this moisture-loving cactus flourishes high in the mossy...
Fish > Gobiiformes
Annie’s Freshwater Goby (Stiphodon annieae) is a jewel-like amphidromous sicydiine goby native to the torrential volcanic streams of North Maluku in the Indonesian archipelago. Named in honor of Annie Keith, this diminutive torrent dweller exhibits some of the...
Amphibians > Gymnophiona
The Gaboon Caecilian (Geotrypetes seraphini) is a fascinating, fossorial limbless amphibian widely distributed across the equatorial rainforests of West and Central Africa. Belonging to the ancient order Gymnophiona, this sleek, earthworm-like subterranean hunter...
Mammals > Chiroptera
Peters’s Flat-headed Bat (Platymops petrophilus) is an extraordinary, highly specialized free-tailed bat native to the rocky landscapes and savanna inselbergs of eastern and southern Africa. Renowned among mammalogists for its astonishingly compressed cranial...
Reptiles > Squamata
The Keeled Slug-eating Snake (Pareas carinatostriatus) is a slender, arboreal colubrid specialized in hunting land snails and slugs in the montane rainforests of Indochina. Famous among evolutionary biologists for asymmetrical jaw structures that match the coiling...
