Miss North’s pitcher-plant Nepenthes northiana Hook.f. (1881) from Sarawak / Borneo A special plant that is threatened by habitat loss but the main reason is because people collecting them, just to have them at home. Nepenthes northiana Hook.f. lives as…
Everett’s Asian tree toad or marbled tree toad Rentapia everetti (Boulenger, 1896) from Sarawak / Borneo – around 950m ASL.
Borneo besitzt riesige Höhlensysteme, zu nennen sind hier vor allem die gigantischen Höhlen im Mulu Nationalpark. Aber auch in anderen Teilen von Sarawak lassen sich Höhlen entdecken, diese sind weitaus weniger bis gar nicht touristisch. Einige dieser Höhlen kennen oft…
Moss mantis, Haania sp. from Sarawak / Borneo around 800m ASL
Orchids are omnipresent in whole Borneo and can be found everywhere from the coastal shorelines to the elevated mountain tops in the hinterland. The orchid Plocoglottis plicata (Roxb.) is very common in certain areas and one of my favorite terrestrial…
Just a mouse? No, its the rare and endemic Ranee Mouse, Haeromys margarettae (Thomas, 1893), named after Margaret Brooke, the wife of the second white Rajah of Sarawak, Charles Brooke. just a cellphone shot (iPhone XS), location: north Sarawak, around…
Stheneboea spec. or Parastheneboea spec. of central Sarawak / Borneo
Aroid, Podolasia spinosa of Sarawak / Borneo, around 120m ASL
Orange huntsman spider with egg-sack, Heteropoda sp. of south Sarawak / Borneo
Update: recent research shows that this is the new described Ansonia kanak Matsui, Nishikawa, Eto & Hossman, 2020 Undescribed stream toad of the Ansonia Genus, Ansonia spec., East-Sabah / Borneo 500m ASL