Birds > Phaethontids & Phaethontiformes
The Red-billed Tropicbird (Phaethon aethereus), known historically to sailors as the ‘boatswain bird,’ is an exquisite, aerially supreme pelagic seabird belonging to the family Phaethontidae within the distinct order Phaethontiformes. Dispersed widely...
Birds > Eurypygids & Eurypygiformes
The Sunbittern (Eurypyga helias) is an exquisite, secretive, riparian wading bird and the sole surviving representative of the monotypic family Eurypygidae within the ancient avian order Eurypygiformes. Distributed throughout the humid lowland rainforests and forested...
Mammals > Mustelids & Carnivorans
The Tayra (Eira barbara), known throughout Latin America as the tolomuco, comadreja grande, or perico ligero, is a robust, athletic, medium-sized neotropical mustelid and the sole extant member of the genus Eira. Widely distributed across Central and South America...
Fungi > Fomitopsidaceae & Polyporales
The Chicken of the Woods (Laetiporus sulphureus), also popularly celebrated as the sulfur shelf or sulfur polypore, is a massive, visually spectacular bracket polypore fungus belonging to the family Fomitopsidaceae within the order Polyporales. Abundantly distributed...
Fungi > Hydnaceae & Cantharellales
The Hedgehog Mushroom (Hydnum repandum), widely celebrated in European foraging traditions as the sweet tooth or pied-de-mouton (‘sheep’s foot’), is an esteemed wild edible basidiomycete macrofungus belonging to the family Hydnaceae within the order...
