Birds > Trochilidae & Hummingbirds
The Purple-throated Carib (Eulampis jugularis) is a magnificent, velvety black hummingbird endemic to the volcanic, rainforest-cloaked islands of the Lesser Antilles. Celebrated in evolutionary biology as a textbook example of ecological mutualism and sexual...
Fish > Molidae & Sunfishes
The Slender Sunfish (Ranzania laevis) is the most strikingly hydrodynamic, colorful, and streamlined member of the monumental ocean sunfish family Molidae. Inhabiting warm epipelagic and mesopelagic ocean currents circumglobally, this remarkable pelagic fish breaks...
Fungi > Phallaceae & Stinkhorns
The Lantern Stinkhorn (Lysurus mokusin), also celebrated historically as the ribbed lizard claw stinkhorn, is one of the most architecturally distinctive and visually striking macrofungi in the order Phallales. Originating in the ancient broadleaf woodlands and bamboo...
Invertebrates > Thecosomata & Sea Butterflies
The Giant Sea Butterfly (Corolla spectabilis) is a breathtakingly delicate, free-swimming pelagic sea snail that glides through the sunlit epipelagic waters of the open ocean. Belonging to the specialized gastropod suborder Thecosomata, this ethereal marine mollusk...
Fish > Lophiiformes & Caulophrynidae
The Fanfin Angler (Caulophryne jordani) is one of the most mesmerizing, anatomically bizarre, and rarely encountered deep-sea anglerfishes in the global ocean. Inhabiting the perpetual, freezing darkness of the bathypelagic abyss between 2,300 and 10,000 feet beneath...
