Fish > Balistids & Tetraodontiformes
The Clown Triggerfish (Balistoides conspicillum), celebrated across the Indo-Pacific as the most visually flamboyant and boldly patterned reef fish on Earth, is a large, powerfully built marine teleost fish belonging to the triggerfish family Balistidae within the...
Fish > Lepisosteids & Lepisosteiformes
The Spotted Gar (Lepisosteus oculatus) is a prehistoric, heavily armored freshwater predatory teleost fish belonging to the ancient gar family Lepisosteidae within the archaic order Lepisosteiformes. Indigenous to the clear, slow-moving rivers, tranquil bayous, and...
Birds > Ramphastids & Piciformes
The Keel-billed Toucan (Ramphastos sulfuratus), officially honored as the beloved national bird of Belize and known across the Neotropics as the ‘rainbow-billed toucan,’ is an iconic, flamboyantly colored arboreal piciform bird belonging to the toucan...
Mammals > Procyonids & Carnivora
The Ringtail (Bassariscus astutus), officially celebrated as the state mammal of Arizona and historically affectionately called the ‘miner’s cat’ by frontier prospectors, is an enchanting, ultra-agile nocturnal procyonid mammal belonging to the...
Mammals > Felids & Carnivora
The Serval (Leptailurus serval), celebrated across Africa as the cheetah of the grass stems and the quintessential long-legged wetland hunter, is a slender, exceptionally gracile medium-sized wild cat belonging to the lineage Felinae within the cat family Felidae...
