Fungi > Mycenaceae & Bonnet Mushrooms
The Orange Mycena (Mycena leaiana), affectionately known as Lea’s bonnet, is one of the most brilliant and visually arresting macrofungi found in the temperate deciduous forests of eastern North America. Named in honor of 19th-century Cincinnati botanist Thomas...
Invertebrates > Cleaner Shrimps
The Blood Shrimp (Lysmata debelius), also celebrated as the scarlet cleaner shrimp, fire shrimp, or cardinal shrimp, is undeniably one of the most stunningly colored decapod crustaceans on planet Earth. Inhabiting the deep, shaded crevices and submarine caves of...
Fish > Boxfishes & Cowfishes
The Humpback Turretfish (Tetrosomus gibbosus), known colloquially as the camel cowfish or thornback boxfish, is one of the most geometrically bizarre and architecturally fortified bony fishes in the ocean. Native across the warm, tropical waters of the Indo-West...
Amphibians > Salamanders & Newts
The Paddle-tail Newt (Pachytriton labiatus), known also as the spotless stout newt, is a heavily built, strictly aquatic salamander native to the pristine, cold-water mountain streams of southeastern China. Renowned among caudates for its stout muscular body and...
