Fungi > Physalacriaceae & Tufted Agarics
The Golden-scruffy Collybia (Cyptotrama asprata), also celebrated as the golden tufted agaric or prickly golden cap, is a dazzling, sun-yellow basidiomycete fungus dotting damp fallen logs across the world’s warm-temperate and tropical forests. Instantly...
Invertebrates > Xanthidae & Boxer Crabs
The Boxer Crab (Lybia tessellata), frequently celebrated as the pom-pom crab or cheerleader crab, is a charming, miniature decapod crustacean flourishing across tropical shallow coral reefs throughout the Indo-Pacific. Famous across marine ecology for its remarkable...
Reptiles > Gekkonidae & Web-footed Geckos
The Namib Sand Gecko (Pachydactylus rangei), frequently celebrated as the web-footed gecko, is an extraordinary, translucent desert reptile perfectly engineered to thrive across the hyper-arid, shifting sand dunes of southern Africa’s coastal Namib Desert....
Birds > Pipridae & Manakins
The Club-winged Manakin (Machaeropterus deliciosus) is a captivating, jewel-toned passerine inhabiting the mist-shrouded cloud forest slopes of the Chocó biodiversity hotspot in Colombia and Ecuador. Renowned throughout ornithological physics for one of the most...
Fungi > Sarcoscyphaceae & Tropical Cup Fungi
The Bristly Tropical Cup Fungus (Cookeina tricholoma) is one of the most charismatic and instantly recognizable ascomycete fungi in the world’s equatorial rainforests. Growing directly from moisture-laden fallen hardwood branches, this delicate goblet-shaped...
