Northern Glider

Mammals > Marsupials

The Northern Glider (Petaurus abidi) is one of the rarest, most enigmatic arboreal marsupials in the Australasian realm. Belonging to the wrist-winged glider family Petauridae, this nocturnal canopy specialist is confined entirely to a fragile, high-elevation mountain...

Common Paradise Kingfisher

Birds > Kingfishers

The Common Paradise Kingfisher (Tanysiptera galatea) is universally admired as one of the most elegant and spectacularly plumage birds in the Australasian tropics. Inhabiting the shadowed understory of lowland rainforests across New Guinea and the Moluccan islands,...

Ifola Tree-kangaroo

Mammals > Diprotodontia

The Ifola Tree-kangaroo (Dendrolagus notatus) is a magnificent, heavily built arboreal macropod endemic to the rugged Central Cordillera of Papua New Guinea. Once classified as a subspecies of the Goodfellow’s tree-kangaroo, taxonomic revisions have established...

Huon Astrapia

Birds > Passeriformes

The Huon Astrapia (Astrapia rothschildi) is an extraordinarily glamorous bird-of-paradise endemic strictly to the isolated mist-veiled mountain ranges of the Huon Peninsula in eastern Papua New Guinea. Discovered and described in 1906, this high-altitude avian...

Lacy Scorpionfish

Fish > Scorpaenidae & Scorpionfishes

The Lacy Scorpionfish (Rhinopias aphanes) is widely considered one of the most magnificent, bizarre, and visually ornate marine fishes swimming on tropical coral reefs. Native to the rich, current-washed outer reef walls of the Coral Sea and Papua New Guinea, this...