Author(s): Christopher Kemp
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Year: 2017
Language: English
Pages: 273
Contents......Page 10
Introduction......Page 14
The Vertebrates......Page 24
1. Pushed up a Mountain and into the Clouds: The Olinguito (Bassaricyon neblina)......Page 26
2. Beneath a Color 83 Sky: The Ucucha Mouse (Thomasomys ucucha)......Page 36
3. Going on a Tapir Hunt: The Little Black Tapir (Tapirus kabomani)......Page 42
4. A Taxonomic Confusion: The Saki Monkeys (Pithecia genus)......Page 54
5. Scattered to the Corners of the World: The Arfak Pygmy Bandicoot (Microperoryctes aplini)......Page 64
6. The One That Got Away for 160 Years: Wallace’s Pike Cichlid (Crenicichla monicae)......Page 74
7. Here Be Dragons: The Ruby Seadragon (Phyllopteryx dewysea)......Page 82
8. A Century in a Jar: The Thorius Salamanders......Page 90
9. From a Green Bowl: The Overlooked Squeaker Frog (Arthroleptis kutogundua)......Page 98
10. A Body and a Disembodied Tail: Smith’s Hidden Gecko (Cyrtodactylus celatus)......Page 108
The Invertebrates......Page 116
11. Treasure in the By-Catch: The Gall Wasps (Cynipoidea species)......Page 118
12. The Biomimic: The Lightning Cockroach (Lucihormetica luckae)......Page 126
13. Sunk beneath the Surface in a Sea of Beetles: Darwin’s Rove Beetle (Darwinilus sedarisi )......Page 134
14. The Spoils of a Distant War: The Congo Duskhawker Dragonfly (Gynacantha congolica)......Page 142
15. A Specimen in Two Halves: Muir’s Wedge-Shaped Beetle (Rhipidocyrtus muiri)......Page 150
16. Mary Kingsley’s Longhorn Beetle (Pseudictator kingsleyae)......Page 158
17. The Giant Flies (Gauromydas papavero and Gauromydas mateus)......Page 166
18. It Came from Area 51: The Atomic Tarantula Spider (Aphonopelma atomicum)......Page 174
19. The Host with the Most: The Nematode Worm (Ohbayashinema aspeira)......Page 184
20. From a Time Machine on Cromwell Road: Ablett’s Land Snail (Pseudopomatias abletti)......Page 192
21. In Sight of Land: Payden’s Isopod (Exosphaeroma paydenae)......Page 200
22. A Ball of Spines: Makarov’s King Crab (Paralomis makarovi)......Page 208
Botanical......Page 214
23. In an Ikea Bag: The Custard Apple Family (Monanthotaxis Genus)......Page 216
The Others......Page 222
24. Waiting with Their Jackets On: The Fossils (Paleontology Specimens Collected by Elmer Riggs)......Page 224
25. The First Art: The Earliest Hominin Engraving (a 500,000-Year-Old Shell)......Page 234
Epilogue......Page 240
Illustration Captions and Credits......Page 246
Notes......Page 250
Index......Page 260
