Plants > Arecaceae & Arecales
The Walking Palm (Socratea exorrhiza), known throughout the Amazon and Central America as the ‘cashapona’ or ‘palmera que camina’, is a tall, slender canopy palm belonging to the palm family Arecaceae. Indigenous to the humid, primary lowland...
Plants > Myrtaceae & Myrtales
The Jabuticaba (Plinia cauliflora, formerly Myrciaria cauliflora), known universally across South America as the ‘Brazilian grape tree’ and celebrated as one of Brazil’s most iconic botanical treasures, is a slow-growing, beautifully barked fruit...
Reptiles > Gekkonids & Squamates
The Tokay Gecko (Gekko gecko), renowned across Asian culture as a revered harbinger of good fortune and prosperity, is a colossal, fiercely territorial nocturnal lizard belonging to the true gecko family Gekkonidae. Indigenous to the humid tropical rainforests,...
Amphibians > Rhinophrynids & Anura
The Mexican Burrowing Toad (Rhinophrynus dorsalis), universally celebrated across herpetology as one of the most anatomically bizarre and evolutionary isolated amphibians on Earth, is the sole surviving living member of the ancient family Rhinophrynidae. Representing...
Amphibians > Rhacophorids & Anura
Wallace’s Flying Frog (Rhacophorus nigropalmatus), named in honor of visionary British naturalist and co-discoverer of natural selection Alfred Russel Wallace who first documented its extraordinary flight in Borneo in 1855, is a large, brilliantly colored...
