Fungi > Mycenaceae & Bioluminescent Fungi
The Luminescent Bonnet (Filoboletus manipularis) is one of the most dazzling and intensely bioluminescent macrofungi in the tropical realm. Inhabiting the warm, rain-drenched tropical forests of Southeast Asia and Australasia, this gregarious basidiomycete forms...
Invertebrates > Octopodidae & Octopuses
The Blue-lined Octopus (Hapalochlaena fasciata) is one of the world’s most deceptively captivating and dangerously venomous marine invertebrates, native strictly to the rocky reefs and intertidal coastal waters of eastern Australia. Rarely growing larger than a...
Fish > Sternoptychidae & Hatchetfish
The Diaphanous Hatchetfish (Sternoptyx diaphana) is an extraordinary and bizarre inhabitant of the oceanic twilight zone, roaming the deep, sunless waters of the world’s open oceans. Resembling a miniature silver hand-axe forged from polished chrome, this...
Amphibians > Rhacophoridae & Gliding Frogs
The Malabar Gliding Frog (Rhacophorus malabaricus), also celebrated as the Malabar Flying Frog, is an iconic arboreal amphibian strictly endemic to the biodiversity hotspot of India’s Western Ghats. Perched high within the humid, moss-covered canopies of...
Fish > Mormyridae & Elephantfishes
The Wormdish Elephantfish (Campylomormyrus tamandua) is one of the most anatomically extraordinary weakly electric freshwater fishes in the world, native to the deep, swirling channels of Central Africa’s Congo River basin. Characterized by an elongated,...
