Birds > Kingfishers
The Buff-breasted Paradise Kingfisher (Tanysiptera sylvia) is widely regarded as one of the most breathtaking avian jewels inhabiting the rainforests of Australasia. Celebrated for its dazzling jewel-toned plumage, coral-red bill, and magnificent twin ribbon-like tail...
Invertebrates > Spiders
The Tree Stump Spider (Poltys illepidus), occasionally known as the elephant spider due to the curious profile of its ocular turret, is a bizarre orb-weaving arachnid celebrated for possessing one of the most astonishing camouflage adaptations in the animal kingdom....
Fish > Scorpionfish
Eschmeyer’s Scorpionfish (Rhinopias eschmeyeri) is one of the most spectacularly ornate, coveted marine teleosts inhabiting the coral reef systems of the Indo-West Pacific. Named in honor of renowned American ichthyologist William N. Eschmeyer, this rare...
Reptiles > Lizards
The Short-crested Bay Island Forest Lizard (Coryphophylax subcristatus) is an agile, diurnal agamid lizard strictly endemic to the tropical rainforests of the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago in the eastern Indian Ocean. Clothed in shades of mossy green and bark-brown...
Plants > Yams
Polynesian Arrowroot (Tacca leontopetaloides), known traditionally as pia across eastern Polynesia, is a fascinating perennial geophyte belonging to the yam family (Dioscoreaceae). Renowned among ethnobotanists and horticulturists for its extraordinary, otherworldly...
