Fungi > Marasmiaceae
Mycena chlorophos is one of the most famous and brilliantly glowing bioluminescent mushrooms in the world, belonging to the family Mycenaceae. Discovered in 1860 on the Bonin Islands of Japan by American botanist Miles Joseph Berkeley, this delicate saprotrophic...
Birds > Songbirds
Formally described in 2020 after comprehensive bioacoustic and genetic analyses untangled cryptic Andean tapaculo complexes, the White-winged Tapaculo (Scytalopus krabbei) is a secretive, mouse-like passerine endemic to the high-elevation elfin forests of Colombia and...
Birds > Songbirds
Discovered and described in 2008, the Togian White-eye (Zosterops somadikartai) is a distinctive songbird endemic exclusively to the Togian Islands in central Indonesia. Remarkably for a member of the ‘white-eye’ family, it completely lacks the...
Plants > Trees
The Fony Baobab (Adansonia rubrostipa), known in Malagasy as ‘baobab fony,’ is the smallest yet most characteristically sculpted of the six baobab species endemic to Madagascar. Renowned for its distinct bottle- or teapot-shaped swollen trunk and deeply...
Mammals > Civets
The Banded Palm Civet (Hemigalus derbyanus) is an elusive, nocturnal viverrid indigenous to the dense tropical rainforests of Sundaland. Readily distinguished by its striking cream-and-chocolate transverse banded patterning, this secretive forest carnivore differs...
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