Eagle Ray
Wings that crack shells
Conservation Threats
Wildlife Trade
Capture and trafficking of animals for pets, medicine, or commercial products
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Wildlife Trade Animals
Emperor Angelfish
Reef royalty in stripes and rings
Ornate Box Turtle
Prairie jewel that shuts like a box
Urial
Horns of the high dry hills
Orchid Dottyback
Small purple fish, big reef attitude
Agkistrodon Contortrix
Hourglass bands. Hidden hunter.
Savannah Monitor
West Africa's clawed ground-forager
Tangerine Leopard Gecko
Orange glow, true eyelids, big personality
Pig-Nosed Turtle
Sea-turtle flippers, river-turtle soul
Spotted Garden Eel
The plankton-picker of the sand flats
Kouprey
Kouprey: the vanishing forest ox
Tarantula
Big spiders, quiet ambush masters
Keyhole Cichlid
Small cichlid, big-family devotion
Uromastyx (Spiny-Tailed Lizard)
Spiny tails, desert scales, plant power.
Uaru Cichlid
Amazon's gentle giant with a triangle badge
Xingu River Ray
Rio Xingu's Black Diamond Stingray
Mollusk
One phylum, endless forms
Gourami
Gulp air, build nests, rule the shallows
Kissing Gourami
Not a kiss-it's a contest.
Ornate Bichir
Maze-Patterned Air-Breathing Predator
Cone Snail
Harpoon hunters of the reef
Desert Wolf
Built to run, born to howl
Regal Jumping Spider
Big eyes. Bold leaps. No web needed.
Goliath Grouper
Mangroves to wrecks-Atlantic giant