Catalogue of Organisms

The momonga or Japanese flying squirrel, Pteromys momonga : less than a foot in length and possibly the most revoltingly adorable animal in...

This week's Taxon of the Week post has been delayed a little: getting hold of some of the reference for it required me to enter a real l...

Though most researchers have accepted the legitimacy of A. A. Girault's private publications, there are at least two taxa described the...

Alexandre Girault at age 20, as he appeared in Gordh et al. (1979). Having recently discussed the availability of privately published taxon...

The variety of drosophilids, from here . In the classification used in this post, the species illustrated would be Sophophora simulans and...

I haven't been a member of the DML for a while so I missed the controversy of the last few days over the publication (or not) of a book...

Artoria mckayi , an inhabitant of alpine gravel river banks in eastern Australia. Photo by D. Paul . Wolf spiders, or "wolfies"...