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Lepidochelys olivacea
species of turtle
Giant golden-crowned flying fox
species of mammal
Surili
Presbytis is a genus of Old World monkeys also known as langurs, leaf monkeys, or surilis. Members of the genus live in the Thai-Malay Peninsula, on Sumatra, Borneo, Java and smaller nearby islands.
hoary marmot
species of mammal
Least Seedsnipe
species of bird
Philippine Sailfin Lizard
species of reptile
Eucnemidae
Eucnemidae, or false click beetles, are a family of elateroid beetles based on the type genus Eucnemis; they include about 1700 species, distributed worldwide.
Agriotes
Agriotes is a genus of beetles in the family Elateridae which includes numerous species, many of which are found in the Americas, Asia and much of Europe.
Asemum
Asemum is a genus of longhorn beetles in the family Cerambycidae, described by Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz in 1830.
Sternocera
Sternocera is a genus of jewel beetles belonging to the Julodinae subfamily.
Julodis
Julodis is a genus of beetles in the family Buprestidae.
Papilio deiphobus rumanzovia
species of insect
Capnodis
Capnodis is a genus of beetles in the family Buprestidae, containing the following species:
Dicerca
Dicerca is a genus of beetles in the family Buprestidae. It contains the following species: thumb|Dicerca obscura
Athous
Athous is a genus of click beetles belonging to the family Elateridae.
Agalmatidae
Agalmatidae, or Agalmidae, is a family of siphonophores.
Aequoreidae
Aequoreidae is a family of hydrozoans, sometimes called the many-ribbed jellies or many-ribbed jellyfish. There are approximately 30 known species found in temperate and tropical marine coastal environments. Aequoreids include Aequorea victoria, the organism from which the green fluorescent protein gene was isolated. thumb|This map shows the distribution of the Aequoreidae family across the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian ocean.
Presbytis mitrata
species of mammal
Ceanothus thyrsiflorus
species of plant
Geryoniidae
The Geryoniidae are a family of hydrozoans in the order Trachymedusae.
Monocrepidius
Monocrepidius is a genus of click beetles in the family Elateridae. The genus has often been cited as Conoderus, but of the two names for this genus published simultaneously in 1829, the one selected by the First Reviser under the ICZN was Monocrepidius, rendering Conoderus the junior synonym. thumb|Monocrepidius vespertinus
Omus
Omus is a genus of tiger beetles, subfamily Cicindelinae. Its members are dark colored, nocturnal, and flightless. All members occur along the west coast of North America.
Pachliopta kotzebuea
species of insect
Vanessa tameamea
species of insect
Agestrata
Agestrata is a genus of scarab beetles (insects of the family Scarabaeidae).
Poecilonota
Poecilonota is a genus of beetles in the family Buprestidae, containing the following species:
Hermissenda crassicornis
species of mollusc
Metrius
Metrius is a genus of beetles in the family Carabidae, containing the following species:
Metrius contractus
species of insect
Alaus
Alaus is a genus of click beetle belonging to the family Elateridae. Unlike many click beetles, Alaus larvae are completely predatory.
Eleodes
Eleodes (commonly known as pinacate beetles or desert stink beetles) is a genus of darkling beetles in the family Tenebrionidae. They are endemic to western North America, ranging from southern Canada to central Mexico, with many species found along the Mexico-United States border. Some species have been introduced to Colombia. The name pinacate is Mexican Spanish, derived from the Nahuatl (Aztec) name for the insect, pinacatl, which translates as "black beetle".
Delias henningia
species of insect
Lupinus chamissonis
species of plant
Agalma okeni
jellyfish
Chalcolepidius
Chalcolepidius is a genus of beetles in the family Elateridae.
Agalma
genus of cnidarians
Conognatha
Conognatha is a genus of beetles in the family Buprestidae, tribe Stigmoderini, containing the following species: They are found in the Neotropical realm.
Leptinopterus tibialis
species of beetles
Navarretia squarrosa
species of plant
Omus californicus
species of insect
Passalus interstitialis
species of beetle
Miscodera
Miscodera arctica is a species of beetles in the family Carabidae, the only species in the genus Miscodera. It is circumpolar in distribution, predominantly northern, with outliers in New Hampshire and Maine in the continental U.S. Its relationships have been long disputed. Here it is placed in subfamily Broscinae. While it certainly belongs to the more advanced ground beetles, it was alternatively placed in the subfamily Trechinae.
Cryptobatis
Cryptobatis is a genus in the ground beetle family Carabidae. There are about eight described species in Cryptobatis, found in Central and South America.
Chalcolepidius zonatus
species of beetle
Loxocrepis
Loxocrepis is a genus of ground beetles in the family Carabidae. There are about seven described species in Loxocrepis.
Apolemia
Apolemia is a genus of siphonophores. It is the only genus in the monotypic family Apolemiidae.
Pareronia boebera
species of insect
Cardiorhinus
Cardiorhinus is a genus of click beetles in the subfamily Elaterinae.
Aeolus
genus of insects