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Appearance
- Phantasmal poison frog
- White-lipped Tree Frog
- Common frog
- Atelopus certus
- Dendropsophus microcephalus
- Bufo americanus
- Common Indian Toad
- Blue Mountains Tree Frog
- Brown Tree Frog
- Rana clamitans
- Agalychnis callidryas
- New England Tree Frog
- Litoria chloris
- Eastern newt
- Eastern Banjo Frog
- Leaf Green Tree Frog
- White's Tree Frog
- Golden toad (Bufo periglenes), suffered extinction by fungus Chytridiomycota (chytridion="little pot") and Habitat destruction
- Granular poison frog, Aposematism (warning colouration). cf. Apotropaic magic
- Ladder snake
- Western Terrestrial Garter Snake Thamnophis elegans terrestris
- Australian water dragon
- Green sea turtle
- Marine Iguana
- Italian wall lizard
- Common collared lizard
- Plestiodon fasciatus
- Sinai agama Pseudotrapelus sinaitus, Agamidae Lizard
- Agama mwanzae
- Phelsuma laticauda
- White-headed dwarf gecko
- Trachylepis striata
- Leiocephalus carinatus
- Trachylepis maculilabris mating
- Dwarf yellow-headed gecko
- Aldabra Giant Tortoise
- Albino alligator
- Florida Box Turtle (Terrapene carolina Terrapene carolina bauri)
- Chamaeleo jacksonii
- Common snakeneck turtle
- Carpet Python
- Eastern Bearded Dragon
- Gold dust day gecko
- Green sea turtle
- Anole at Polychrotidae
- Plumed Basilisk
- Green Sea Turtle at Sea turtle
- Beaded Lizard
- Carolina Anole
- Tortoise hatchling at Marginated Tortoise
Avis
[edit]- Southern Red Bishop
- Red-headed Finch
- Peafowl, Indian Peafowl
- Hoatzin, a Folivore found in Mangrove of the Amazon Basin and Orinoco Delta
- Andean Condor (Vultur gryphus). Condor, New World vulture
- Broad-billed Hummingbird (Cynanthus latirostris), Hummingbird
- Sword-billed Hummingbird (Ensifera ensifera) "sword-wielder" from Latin ensis=sword ferre=to carry, from remarkable beak length.
- Cassowary, Ratite, Flightless bird of Gondwanan origin
- Sunbittern, order Eurypygiformes
- Crane, Sarus Crane
- Bay-headed Tanager
- Yellow-bibbed Lory
- Oriole Blackbird
- Flamingo
- Red-bellied Woodpecker, Piciformes, List of birds of Florida
- Woodpecker
- Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata), of family Corvidae, order Passeriformes (Passerine means perching birds)
- Green Violetear Hummingbird, Ornithophily
- Oriental Dwarf Kingfisher, Ceyx (bird), Coraciiformes (Raven like)
- Fulvous Whistling Duck
- Black Swan, Moulting Lagoon Important Bird Area
- Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus "sea eagle" Greek hali=salt, aeetus=eagle, leuco=white, cephalis=head)
Mammalia
[edit]- Virginia opossum,the only marsupial found in North America north of Mexico.
Opossums make up the largest Order of Marsupials in the Western Hemisphere
- Siberian tiger, Genus Panthera of Family Felidae
- African elephant, family Elephant, Elephantidae, order Proboscidea
- Rhinoceros, an Odd-toed ungulate (Perissodactyl, περισσός="uneven" δάκτυλος="finger/toe")
- Black and Rufous Elephant Shrew, Elephant shrew
- Crested Porcupine, a Rodent, genus Hystrix of the Hystricidae family
- Platypus, an egg-laying mammal: Monotreme (μονός="single" τρῆμα="hole")