Reptiles > Colubrids
The Variegated Snail-Eater (Dipsas variegata) is an exquisite, highly specialized colubrid snake indigenous to the humid, multi-layered rainforests of northern South America. Operating as a nocturnal arboreal predator, this slender, blunt-headed serpent represents a...
Amphibians > Tree Frogs
The Splendid Leaf Frog (Cruziohyla calcarifer) is widely regarded as one of the most visually dazzling anurans in the Neotropics. Native to the lush, rain-drenched lowland forests stretching from southern Central America into the Chocó biogeographic region of...
Reptiles > Squamata
The Keeled Slug-eating Snake (Pareas carinatostriatus) is a slender, arboreal colubrid specialized in hunting land snails and slugs in the montane rainforests of Indochina. Famous among evolutionary biologists for asymmetrical jaw structures that match the coiling...
Amphibians > Frogs
Sylvia’s Tree Frog (Cruziohyla sylviae) is a magnificent, vividly colored arboreal hylid frog native to the primary rainforest canopies of Central America. Formally described as a distinct species in 2018 after being conflated for over a century with the closely...
Mammals > Primates
The Bangka Slow Loris (Nycticebus bancanus) is a critically unique, nocturnal strepsirrhine primate native to the peat swamp and dipterocarp forests of Bangka Island and southwestern Borneo. Formally elevated to distinct species status in 2013 based on pelage and...
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