Frosted Flatwoods Salamander

Amphibians > Salamanders & Newts

The Frosted Flatwoods Salamander (Ambystoma cingulatum) is an endangered, burrowing mole salamander endemic to the critically imperiled longleaf pine flatwoods of the southeastern United States. Named for the delicate, silvery-grey netlike or ‘frosted’...

European Spiny Lobster

Invertebrates > Crustaceans

The European Spiny Lobster (Palinurus elephas), traditionally prized across Mediterranean seafood markets as the ‘crayfish’ or ‘langouste’, is a large, clawless decapod crustacean native to the northeastern Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea....

Southern Hognose Snake

Reptiles > Snakes

The Southern Hognose Snake (Heterodon simus) is the charming, sharply upturned-nosed fossorial marvel of the southeastern American sandhills. The smallest and rarest of the North American hognose snakes, this stout, harmless colubrid is specialized for life in the...

Gray Triggerfish

Fish > Tetraodontiformes

The Gray Triggerfish (Balistes capriscus), affectionately known to fishermen across the Atlantic as the ‘Leatherjacket’ or ‘Turbot’, is a tough, intelligent, and commercially celebrated reef fish of temperate and tropical seas. Clad in an...

Queen Triggerfish

Fish > Tetraodontiformes

The Queen Triggerfish (Balistes vetula), celebrated throughout the Caribbean as the ‘Old Wife’, is one of the most vividly painted, intelligent, and charismatic reef fish in the Atlantic Ocean. Resplendent in radiant shades of neon blue, lime-green, and...