Amphibians > Phyllomedusids & Anura
Morelet’s Tree Frog (Agalychnis moreletii), celebrated across Mesoamerican herpetology as the ‘black-eyed leaf frog’ due to its enormous, dark ruby-black to purplish iris, is an enchanting, canopy-dwelling anuran belonging to the leaf frog family...
Fish > Chaenopsids & Blenniiformes
The Sarcastic Fringehead (Neoclinus blanchardi) is an extraordinarily pugnacious, tube-dwelling blennioid fish belonging to the tube blenny family Chaenopsidae. Indigenous to the cold, kelp-fringed coastal waters and sandy reefs of the eastern Pacific along California...
Fish > Megachasmids & Lamniformes
The Megamouth Shark (Megachasma pelagios) is an enormous, enigmatic deep-sea lamniform shark belonging to the monotypic family Megachasmidae. First discovered by Western science only in 1976 when a specimen accidentally entangled itself in the sea anchor of a United...
Birds > Ciconiids & Ciconiiformes
The Marabou Stork (Leptoptilos crumenifer), colloquially christened the ‘undertaker bird’ due to its somber dark-cloaked plumage, hunched posture, and macabre scavenging habits, is a colossal wading bird belonging to the stork family Ciconiidae. Indigenous...
Fungi > Tuberaceae & Pezizales
The White Alba Truffle (Tuber magnatum), internationally revered across the culinary arts as the ‘diamond of the kitchen’ and the undisputed pinnacle of gastronomic luxury, is a rare, subterranean hypogeous ascomycete fungus belonging to the truffle family...
