Plants > Cupressaceae & Cupressales
The Bald Cypress (Taxodium distichum), celebrated across the American South as the towering, moss-draped monarch of deep southern swamps, is a colossal, long-lived deciduous conifer belonging to the cypress and redwood family Cupressaceae within the order Cupressales....
Reptiles > Varanids & Squamata
The Asian Water Monitor (Varanus salvator), known locally across Southeast Asia as the biawak or water monitor, is a colossal, semi-aquatic carnivorous monitor lizard belonging to the monitor family Varanidae within the order Squamata. Native to the rich tropical...
Amphibians > Bufonids & Anura
The Common Toad (Bufo bufo), celebrated in European folklore, classical literature, and ecological science as the quintessential European toad, is a large, terrestrial anuran amphibian belonging to the true toad family Bufonidae within the order Anura. Indigenous to a...
Amphibians > Pelodryadids & Anura
The Australian Green Tree Frog (Litoria caerulea), celebrated worldwide across herpetology as White’s tree frog, the green tree frog, or the dumpy tree frog, is a large, placid arboreal anuran amphibian belonging to the Australasian tree frog family...
Fish > Synanceiids & Scorpaeniformes
The Reef Stonefish (Synanceia verrucosa), universally feared across the coastal Indo-Pacific as the world’s most venomous fish, is a bizarre, heavily camouflaged scorpaeniform marine teleost belonging to the stonefish family Synanceiidae within the order...
