Invertebrates > Cnidarians
The Pacific Sea Nettle (Chrysaora fuscescens), also celebrated among marine biologists and oceanographers as the West Coast Sea Nettle, is an exceptionally magnificent, large scyphozoan jellyfish belonging to the family Pelagiidae. Inhabiting the cold, nutrient-rich...
Plants > Flowering Plants
The European Mistletoe (Viscum album), universally celebrated in world folklore, mythology, and winter traditions as common mistletoe or the Golden Bough, is an iconic, evergreen hemiparasitic shrub belonging to the sandalwood family Santalaceae. Native to the...
Plants > Carnivorous Plants
The Common Bladderwort (Utricularia vulgaris), also widely celebrated in European botanical and ecological literature as the greater bladderwort, is an extraordinary, free-floating carnivorous aquatic vascular plant belonging to the bladderwort family...
Amphibians > Frogs & Toads
The Brazilian Horned Frog (Ceratophrys aurita), also celebrated in Brazil as the sapo-untanha or giant Pacman frog, is a colossal, extraordinarily heavy-bodied terrestrial anuran belonging to the South American horned frog family Ceratophryidae. Endemic to the...
