Catalogue of Organisms

It's time to meet the sweepers. Smallscale bullseyes Pempheris compressa , copyright John Turnbull . Sweepers, Pempheridae, are a g...

New paper time! Rhampsinitus conjunctidens , a new species of harvestmen from north-east South Africa, from Taylor (2017). Taylor, C. K...

Münster's (1834) figure of Goniatites hybridus . Looks like I drew another dud. For today;s semi-random post, I ended up tasking myse...

Male blue moon butterfly Hypolimnas bolina , photographed by Comacontrol . My native country of New Zealand is not home to a large divers...

Among the enormous diversity of the world's mites, some families are particularly notorious for the damage that they inflict on commerci...

The Annonaceae is another one of those plant families like Acanthaceae that, despite containing a high diversity of speceis, tend to be ove...

There are times when biogeography is able to throw us some real puzzlers: organisms whose distribution seems to defy expectations. Among the...